More Verizon Unleashed phones popping up, pricing confirmed

This morning's 'Unleashed' tipster has let loose a few more branded phone snapshots from his local Best Buy, further confirming Verizon's new contract free $50 unlimited talk, text, and mobile web plan. These new shots show off the same price structure we saw leaked earlier this month, as well as two more handsets: an LG Accolade, and a Pantech Caper -- both priced at $79.99. This seems a bit steep for the Accolade, a run of the mill flip phone, as this morning's tip priced the more capable LG Cosmosfeaturephone at a mere $39.99. Take your grain of salt, and check out the gallery below.

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Sprint's Common Cents brand falls into the sofa cushions | replaced by Virgin Mobile Beyond Talk

It was some... curious timing. On May 6th of last year Sprint's new boy toy Virgin Mobile announced theBeyond Talk prepaid plan. Then, just a week later, Sprint launched its own, separate prepaid plan,Common Cents.

 Beyond Talk started at $25 a month for 300 minutes while Common Cents was $.07 per minute, all contact free. The latter of those two is now dying away, never catching on despite what must be said is a rather catchy name. Its users are being lumped into the Virgin payLo scheme, while Beyond Talk will take over the kiosks and marketing avenues currently occupied by Common Cents. There, with its rag-tag group of featurephones and data plans, it will continue the fight against the evil TracFoneempire.

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