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carriers are testing the waters to see if you'll pay for full price phones I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update Verizon is the latest carrier to jump into the early upgrade game with a newly announced edge plan basically if you pay more for that smartphone you can upgrade it early now there are some slight technical differences between this and the 18 t next plan but the bottom line is that you are really not getting a good deal with either of these methods they just sound cool because everyone wants the latest phones if you want to save money you are still better off sticking with the two-year contract then just reselling the phone on eBay or gazelle now if you're someone who just has to upgrade every year well you have to pay the full price of the phone which is like 600 or $700 and this Verizon edge plan and the ATT next plan well they take the sting out of that big one-time fee by splitting it up over monthly payments that's all this is also if you go with one of these early upgrade plans you better upgrade after a year or you are losing money and essentially paying twice for the phone and that's because carriers work in the high price of these phones into your monthly service bill so you didn't really just pay $200 for that new phone you're kind of paying for it in the long run they just fold that into your service plan t-mobile has its own version of this but it's a different model to compare because t-mobile has a much lower service charge and it's early upgrade program also works like an insurance policy Netflix made television history as the first streaming service to get Emmy nominations for its exclusive shows including house of cards starring Kevin Spacey the comedy Arrested Development and the horror thriller Hemlock Grove Netflix shows snagged 14 nominations in total and time will tell if that gives more people interested in signing up for the monthly service back in 2008 the Emmy rules changed to make the internet an eligible platform to qualify for an Emmy nomination seems everyone wants a mini version of their phone these days HTC just announced the HTC One mini but with a 4.3 inch screen it's only mini compared to the monster sized screens we have today it'll be out in August but we have an early look now on CNET and before we end a quick correction and the previous show I mentioned the instant messaging app whatsapp could be used on the ipod touch but in fact the only iOS device it works on is an iPhone sorry about that confusion but if you're looking for a multi-platform chatting app that works on the iPod touch check out WeChat Kakao Talk line or you can use a social networking hybrid apps such as path that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet.com slash from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey