Rival

Motorola just introduced a phone made for texting – the Motorola Rival A455. With just one touch, you can start texting your friends with IM-style emoticons. It features a backlit slide-out QWERTY keyboard, touch dial pad, EVDO connectivity, and comes in two colors – Tin Silver and Purple.

The Motorola Rival can hold up to 500 text messages and even organizes them by contact and displays them in a chat-like format. Pretty cool! Other features include a 2 megapixel camera, a 3.5 mm headset jack, up to 8 GB optional removable memory (sold separately), Mobile IM and Mobile email. The phone also supports V CAST Music with Rhapsody, VZ Navigator and Visual Voice Mail.

The Motorola Rival A455 is available today at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

To add a little fun to your day, Motorola also launched the Thumb-Fu Challenge, an online game that lets you compete for the title of "Thumb-Fu Master." Try it out and see if you are the Master at www.motorola.com/rival!