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Google is fist bumping phones and Sprint joins the early upgrade Club I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update quite a few apps are making headlines for starters Google just purchased bump it was one of the earliest smartphone apps to get lots of buzz because of let users wirelessly share contacts or photos with someone else by fist bumping phones together what's interesting is that although bump was a popular download when it launched in 2008 it's not something people use much or talk about now there's no need for any awkward phone bumping when files can be transferred with NFC or with cloud storage services but you can expect wireless file-sharing to come back into the conversation this week with the release of iOS 7 on Wednesday the new air drop feature lets users share files with other nearby iOS devices along with bump Google is also getting the flock app it was created by the bump team for groups sharing photo albums and on the topic of file sharing the cloud storage service box is evolving to be more like Evernote it's adding a new tool called box notes and it shows when other users make changes to text in a document but it'll be several months before you can try it the feature is still in its testing phase and remember Twitter music well if you don't twitter is hoping to spread awareness of its streaming music service with an app on spotify it's like a shortcut to twitter music within the spotify application and you can also find Twitter music playlists on the streaming service are do on Friday right as the new iphone launches Sprint will be offering a new type of early upgrade plan called one up it lists customers pay for smartphones or tablets in monthly installments and upgrade after every year by trading in their devices team level was the first to offer this type of plan 18teen verizon also offer early upgrade plans where customers pay more to get a new device after a year but sprint looks like the better deal customers pick up a phone with no money down and pay for it in monthly installments sprint also lowers the monthly service charges by fifteen dollars compared to those with its standard two-year contract plan so if you pay off the phone and you don't upgrade unlimited talk text and data costs 65 dollars a month slightly less than t mobile's unlimited plan sprint also is getting competitive by offering hundred dollar discounts on any phone for new customers that switch from a rival carrier a new two-year contract is required but it would mean the iphone 5c is free that's your tech news update but you can get more details on these stories at cnet com / update or follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey