By Shane McGlaun
I’m not a particularly heavy texter myself, but my wife is. I am here to tell you that when the wife or significant other likes to text, you will be answering lots of them and becoming much more of a texter than you might want. You may as well get a decent texting phone and make it easier on yourself.
Verizon Wireless has announced a new text optimized mobile phone from Motorola called the Rival. The device is a boxy slider design that has a full QWERTY keyboard. The handset comes in silver or purple colors and has a touch dial-pad (whatever that is). Messages are organized by contact and displayed in a chat format.
The QWERTY keyboard is backlit and the device can hold 500 texts in the inbox and outbox. Storage can be upped to 8GB via a microSDHC card. The Rival supports VZ Navigator, Visual voice mail, and V CAST music. The Rival is available now for $99.99 after $50 mail-in rebate. That’s as much as the iPhone 3G over at AT&T.
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Very noisy design. That asymmetrical placement of the Motorola logo is all wrong, just get rid of the logo completely, we don't all have to be walking billboards.
Very noisy design. That asymmetrical placement of the Motorola logo is all wrong, just get rid of the logo completely, we don't all have to be walking billboards.