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Few years back, the Qwerty keypad phone was only available in smartphone, however nowadays the Qwerty keypad is not belong to smartphone anymore, there are already have bunch of texter phone in the mid-range market. It is because texting has became so hot lately and thus there are more texting-centric phone hit on the market. Motorola, which is seldom produce this kind of texter phone also come out a new texting-centric phone – the Motorola Rival A455 lately. The device is available for Verizon Wireless.

Design

The design of Motorola Rival A455 is just looks like the original LG EnV with a slightly larger screen and no external numerical pad. The Rival is a somewhat deep, chunky it measures 97 x 51 x 18 mm and weighs 125 g sliding phone that sits in your hand like a little brick. On the front, there’s a 176 x 220 pixels, 2.2-inch screen, a cursor pad, and four action buttons. The Rival’s display is applying touch-sensitive technology so called ‘ segmented capacitive touch screen’ which the screen responds to very light touches, but it’s limited and only used with an on-screen dialpad to call someone. There is no hustle to sliding the QWERTY keyboard open, the spring-loaded mechanism work well. The keypad has f 4 rows of keys, with the first three containing numbers, letters and symbols, and the bottom row containing the center space and special function keys. There are special functions for accessing Mobile IM and inserting facial emotion icons into message. Overall, apart of the weight, Motorola Rival’s design is fine. The ergonomic is pretty good in this phones.

Features

The features in Motorola A455 is pretty standard. Considered the handset is for Verizon, thus there are some features that work only with the network like, GPS for VZ Navigator, VCast Music downloads, VCast Video streaming as well as Verizon’s standard messaging software. The threaded SMS and MMS, two simple e-mail programs that handle personal and corporate Microsoft Exchange e-mail in text-only forms. Also there is a basic IM program that supports AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo!

The 2MP camera is somewhat slightly below average. The images look generally hideously overexposed. However, the camera also allow user to do video recording in tiny 176×144 videos at 13 fps.

The Rival still syncs with Rhapsody (a subscription music site that has offers rudimentary Verizon integration),  and plays MP3, AAC, and WMA music files. Music through the rear speaker was nice and loud. You can also listen to music through a Stereo Bluetooth headset or by connecting wired earbuds to the 3.5mm headset jack. Watching video in this phone is unpleasantly. It is only able to play 15fps, lower-quality 3GP videos on the phone, don’t to mention MP4 video.

Conclusion

Motorola Rival A455 is actually below the average in the same range phones like LG enV3 and LG enV Touch. The Motorola Rival A455 just doesn’t measure up to the competition. But we have to admit that the Qwerty keypad is pretty nice, it just don’t deserved for this A455.