Early termination fees have always represented the flipside of subsidized pricing — the necessary evil that keeps free phones free. Thing is, they were tough enough to swallow at $175 or $200, but Verizon’s recently gone for the jugular in a hell-bent effort to keep subscribers locked in by upping the fee on vaguely-defined “advanced devices” (read: any phone a power user would ever want) all the way up to a mind-bending $350 .

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From everything we can tell, this new Droid Eris deal has nothing to do with the day after Thanksgiving and everything to do with the pure insanity of Walmart Wireless / LetsTalk.com.

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