Verizon Wireless Introduces Motorola A455 Rival

Verizon Wireless has announced that the Motorola A455 Rival is now available and it is designed for quick and easy messaging. The Motorola Rival keeps customers socially connected, while offering a
variety of popular multimedia features from Verizon Wireless, including V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video, Visual Voice Mail and VZ Navigator.
It sports a number of touch sensitive controls that add a bit of a twist to the typical user interface found on phones like this. The touch sensitive softkeys light up when available, which makes them
easy to find in both landscape and portrait modes. When opened up in landscape mode for messaging tasks, the on-screen button at the bottom of the display can be activated by touch or by clicking on the d-pad’s
center button. The touch keys seem a bit unnecessary, perhaps, but at least they provide haptic feedback in the form of vibration pulses.
The full touchscreen can only be used when in the dial-pad mode, for entering numbers. Motorola seems to be trying to allow touchscreen use only when necessary, which has kept the UI experience pretty close to
that of similar non-touchscreen phones.
Available in Tin Silver and Purple, the Rival is a full QWERTY phone with a 2.2-inch 176×220 display, media player, 2 megapixel camera, GPS and Bluetooth. Total talk time is rated at 320 minutes while standby
time is 510 hours, which is about 21 days.