The Sprint MVNO operator, Ting, has just announced that it is now selling the Nexus 5 on its own website, but, strangely, it doesn’t want to you to buy it from its online store. Instead the carrier would prefer if you went to Google itself and purchased it directly from the Play Store for $349 and, then, popped a $10 pre-paid Ting SIM card into the handset upon its arrival.

Blu has today increased it mid-range line up by introducing the Life Pure Mini, a scaled-down variant of its 2014 flagship smartphone, the Life Pure. According to the North American company, the Mini is designed and manufactured from a single piece of polycarbonate using CNC technology, in order to keep the cost low.

Less than 24 hours after its official announcement in Poland, Samsung’s scaled-down variant of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Note 3 Neo, is available to pre-order from German online retailer NotebooksBilliger starting at €499 for the HSPA+ variant, and €529.90 for the LTE+ model, these price tags are a little steep even though the devices come unlocked with no carrier branding.

Earlier today, Samsung officially launched the Galaxy Grand Neo as the successor to its former ultra-affordable flagship smartphone of 2013, the Galaxy Grand, a mid-range device which proved to be pretty popular with customers who wanted a big-screen Android experience without a big price tag.

XOLO launched its new mid-range Android-powered smartphone, the Q700S, in India today, which the popular Indian manufacturer hopes will rise to the top of the Asian ultra-affordable market in the not-too-distant future. The handset comes in either a silver or gold metallic finish and is available to purchase for 9,999 Indian Rupees, which is approximately $162.