Verizon Wireless and Motorola announced the Motorola Rival, offering a series of business as well as multimedia capabilities. The handset is powered with a loaded messaging machine that enables speedy and easy messaging and keeps customers socially connected.
The handset offers a wide range of multimedia features from Verizon Wireless like V Cast Music with Rhapsody, V Cast Video, Visual Voice Mail and VZ Navigator and more. It also provides one-touch access to text message composition, emoticons, symbols, IM and e-mail. The phone features a pocket-friendly side-slider along with a touch dial-pad. It sports a 2.0 megapixel camera and a 3.5 mm headset jack.
Additionally it possesses a backlit QWERTY keyboard that illuminates characters, numbers or symbols based on the entry mode when keyed in the dark. Further it supports up to 8GB optional removable memory. Users can also rapidly connect with their friends on AOL, Instant Messenger, Windows Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger via Mobile IM. Mobile Email helps users to access e-mail services like Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL and Windows Live. The handset encompasses VZ Navigator through which users get access to audible turn-by-turn directions of more than 15 million areas of interest which can be shared with others.
The mobile device features V Cast Music with Rhapsody via which users can select from more than 4 million songs that can be downloaded over the air. They can also acquire the master copy of the songs on their PCs. Further users can sync their favorite tracks, albums and playlists from their PCs to their handsets via a USB cable. Moreover the Visual Voice Mail permits users to delete, reply and forward voice mail messages without the need to listen previous messages or voice instructions.
The Motorola Rival is available through Verizon Wireless for a price of $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate along with a new two-year customer agreement. VZ Navigator is available for $2.99 per day, and Visual Voice Mail is offered at $2.99 for a month while V Cast Music with Rhapsody is available for a $14.99 month.