Cricket and RadioShack confirm No-Contract Wireless, ship two Huawei phones to celebrate

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[RadioShack](http://www.engadget.com/tag/RadioShack/) might have had a difficult time keeping a lid on its [partnership with Cricket](http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/27/radioshack-no-contract-wireless-rate-plans/), but that doesn't mean we aren't interested in the official news. Launching under the expected RadioShack No-Contract Wireless banner, the unfettered phone service includes lets shoppers pick either $25 or $35 plans for basic feature phones or, more importantly, some tempting $50 and $60 smartphone plans. On top of unlimited domestic voice and messaging, these last two rates offer a respective 1GB and 2.5GB of data before throttling kicks in, with hotspot support, international text messaging and visual voicemail reserved for the highest-end tier. You'll find just two [Huawei](http://www.engadget.com/tag/Huawei/) phones if you wander into a RadioShack store for the Wednesday launch: the $40 Pillar, a keyboard-touting basic phone, and a white-tinged, $150 [Mercury Ice](http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/01/mobile-miscellany-week-of-august-27th-2012/) that iterates on the Android 2.3-toting Mercury only in the change of color. We're promised two additional, unnamed phones before the end of the month, and smartphones on the No-Contract service will be the only Cricket devices shipping with 8GB microSDHC cards to feed that [Muve Music](http://www.engadget.com/tag/MuveMusic/) habit. The nitty-gritty of the hardware and plans await after the break.

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