Technologies

Cricket Now Allows Android Phones to Try Its Wireless Service for Free

The TryCricket app is now on Android, but it won’t use eSIM like it does on the iPhone.

Cricket Wireless is expanding its trial service to Android phones, letting potential customers try out its AT&T-backed wireless service.

The wireless service provider launched its TryCricket app on the Google Play Store on Tuesday. The app is used to order a physical SIM card for setting up the service.

This is different from how the TryCricket app works on the iPhone, in which an eSIM is downloaded and grants fast access to the network. This is necessary on Apple’s iPhone 14 line, which in the US does not have a physical SIM card slot. However, once the SIM card arrives in the mail and is installed in a phone, Cricket’s trial runs for 14 days. During that time, customers can talk and text using an alternate phone number and use 3GB of high-speed data.

Cricket’s free trial offer for Android, which grants access to AT&T’s network, joins similar trial options offered by T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. Both T-Mobile and Verizon use eSIMs for their trials on both the iPhone and Android phones.

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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 23 #538

Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for Aug. 23, No. 538.

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is a funny one, with a lot of short words to find. If you need hints and answers, read on.

I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far

Hint for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands theme is: Rub it in, why don’t you?

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Skincare.

Clue words to unlock in-game hints

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:

RATE, RARE, MARE, MART, LAST, BLAST, CRAM, RUTS, RULE, JELL, STRUT, SURE, RUSE, BUTT

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle

These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers: