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if you can test drive a car why not test drive a phone I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update t-mobile wants to prove to you that its network is just as good as the other wireless carriers and to do that it's acting like a car dealership by letting you test drive an iPhone 5s on its network for a week there are no strings attached although if you don't bring the phone back they will charge you full price for it t-mobile has been improving its service and expanding coverage of it's faster network but when you're the fourth-place US carrier perhaps the only way to get consumers to believe in the network is to let them take the phone home for a spin t-mobile has been making drastic changes in how it charges customers it killed contracts removed international data roaming charges it pays you to break your contract with a competitor and it all seems to be working t-mobile added 2.4 million new customers in the first quarter that's more than all other carriers combined and t-mobile added another incentive to the list streaming music won't count against your monthly data limits you can listen to Pandora iHeartRadio slacker iTunes Spotify and Rhapsody without accounting against your plan as long as you have a plan that costs $50 or more a month now if you pay for the $80 monthly plan with unlimited data at full speed t-mobile is going to give you a different perks top paying customers get free access to a new music app it's called Rhapsody on radio it's like Pandora but you can skip as much as you want and there are no commercials that's available June 22nd there are a few other apps to keep an eye on LinkedIn created a new spinoff app that is only for job listings it cuts out all the fluff of the main app no posts or people connections or recommendations just job hunting and when you find a listing you can apply and use the app to keep track of positions that you're interested in but if you don't feel like being so serious check out a new app from Intel it's called pocket avatars and it lets you send a short video clip message we're a 3d cartoon face mimics your mouth and your face as you talk it's not perfect but it does succeed at being silly you can pick from many free faces but some of them cost $1 to use you can add effects to make your voice sound funny this is intel's first smartphone app for consumers and lets the company show off the facial gesture software that it's been working on for years that's your tech news update but you can always get more at cnn.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey