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sprint's new cell phone plans are starting to act like cable plans I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Sprint is making changes to its plans to better compete in the wireless world Sprint is killing the poorly named framley plan and replacing it with its first-ever family share plan they call it the family share pack it works like other family share plans we're a family gets unlimited texting and calling but they all share from the same bucket of data the key is that sprint gives twice as much data for the same price as the other networks for new customers Sprint is also tossing in tons of promotions but it can be a little confusing so I'll break it down for you if you switch sprint will pay your cancellation fees up to three hundred and fifty dollars per line which is what t-mobile also offers there are several data packages to pick from on the low end twenty-five dollars a month against you two gigs of data but no matter what package you pick you'll also have to pay a fee for each device you use and the fees are different if you have a two-year contract or financing plan or if it's a tablet but if you're a new customer buying a phone with a financing plan and you go for the hundred-dollar monthly package with 20 gigs of data the device fees are waived and for every member of the family Sprint will throw in an extra 2 gigs of data as a bonus but there are catches you can't get the fees waived with a traditional two-year contract and all these waive fees and discounts go away in 2015 so now your cell phone bill is becoming like a cable bill after the promotional period surprise you have new fees and your bill just went up not all tech stories today are this complicated in fact Roku is making things easier by putting its much-loved streaming box technology inside new televisions soon you can order Roku smart TVs made by TCL in four sizes starting at two hundred and thirty dollars for the 32 inch model there are also some coming out in September made by hisense now after spending a little time with these Roku TVs our editors say that the interface is easier to use than the Smart TVs you see by Samsung LG and Vizio not to mention these Roku TVs are priced cheaper HD see just debuted the HTC One m8 for Windows the HTC One m8 is one of the top Android smartphones out there but now it comes in a Windows flavor with the exact same hardware specs verizon is carrying it for a hundred dollars with a two-year contract but if you buy that Windows Phone you will not be one of the first to play the sequel to flappy bird the creator of the viral game flappy bird is releasing another app called swing copters which lands on the Android and Apple App Store's this Thursday just like before you tap to fly and avoid obstacles and if we're lucky it's probably just as annoying to play that you're seen at tech news update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey