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

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.

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[Chrinik Posted Jun 11th 2009 10:32AM]

Ew?

[(Unverified) Posted 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.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 8:58AM]

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

[(Unverified) Posted 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

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 10th 2009 10:04PM]

we got 4 of these phones less than a month ago and 2 of them are broke

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 10th 2009 10:13PM]

ok heres the store i messed up we got 4 less then a month ago now my bros is broke and now mine is broke