Motorola Rival launches on Verizon, LG Neon seen casting suspicious glares

by Chris Ziegler posted Jun 11th 2009 at 4:28AM

The Casio Exilim was the big news out of Verizon this week, but it wasn't the only anticipated model to finally get announced for the carrier. The Motorola A455 Rival sorta reminds us of LG's Neon for AT&T, offering a touchscreen basically for the sole purpose of on-screen dialing so you don't need to slide out the keyboard or do anything crazy with the d-pad just to place a call; otherwise, you've got a 2 megapixel cam, EV-DO, VZ Navigator, and microSD expansion to 8GB. Even though the Neon's the doppelganger here, the Rival's priced more like the upmarket Xenon -- $99.99 on contract after rebate -- and is available now in your choice of silver and purple.

Read - Tin Silver
Read - Purple

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

Tags: a455, moto, motorola, qwerty, rival, verizon, verizon wireless, VerizonWireless, vzw

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Leo161 @ Jun 11th 2009 10:32AM

Ew?

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daveyellow @ Jun 11th 2009 12:18PM

yeah, the color scheme is not so hot. the silver one would be better if the d-pad didn't have that RROD thing around it. Though, the back/battery panel has a nice swirly design.

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Niraj @ Jul 13th 2009 8:58AM

Please engadget send me this phone! Or any verizon phone!

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Heather @ Jul 25th 2009 9:58PM

This phone is compact and I like the qwerty key pad. Its a cute phone but….do not waste your money on the Rival. I purchased it. Had it 7 days and it started messing up. Repeating text, saying message failed, even though someone responds to the text and froze up for not apparent reason. I turned it off to see if maybe that was the problem, it wasn’t. Took it too Verizon on the 9th day that I had the phone they re programed it. I thought that helped well, it didn’t the following day it messed up again. So now I am trading it in for and Env 3

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