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Manufacturer: Motorola Part number: 9370888
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- Though we like the Motorola Rival's features, its poor design keeps us from recommending it.
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CNET editors' review
Motorola Rival (silver, Verizon Wireless) price range: $219.99
- Reviewed by: Nicole Lee
- Reviewed on: 06/24/2009
The good: The Motorola Rival offers a slew of multimedia features and good call quality.
The bad: The Motorola Rival's navigation controls are poorly designed. Also, it has a lackluster display.
The bottom line: Though we like the Motorola Rival's features, its poor design keeps us from recommending it.
User reviews
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Good solid phone with great battery life
by jocularjosh on July 1, 2009
Pros: - Great Battery life, even when playing music, 6 hours per battery bar
- Solid build
- Solid Intuitive interface
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- 8GB microSD and MP3 player
- IM support
- Loud clear speaker phone
- clear calls
- VZ NavigatorCons: - Keyboard solid, but not great. They keys are a bit stiff
- Color options are not great
- LCD, it is decent but could be a bit better resolution and support more colors
- No equalizer for those listening to music(which is me)
- a bit clunky overallSummary: I am your simple user using mainly texting, IM, music player and that is about all. If you want a good solid texting/IM phone with a super long battery ...
Summary: I am your simple user using mainly texting, IM, music player and that is about all. If you want a good solid texting/IM phone with a super long battery life even with music playing then this is your phone. For those of you who want a sleek beautiful phone with all the features then this is not for you, I'd go with the LG enV touch.
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Much Better Than I Expected! Great Phone!
by Dant312 on July 15, 2009
Pros: -Small and just really cute!
-Semi-touch screen surprisingly really nice!
-Keyboard is really easy to use.
-GREAT FOR TEXTING (like i do 24/7)
-Tons of great features.
-Threaded (chat-like) texts.
-Holds 500 messages!
-BATTER LASTS DAYS!
-FUN!Cons: -kinda laggy at times when doing things fast. (nothing a software update cant handle)
-screen a little to ... blehh (lcd screen is lacking colors)
-default font sucks! :(2 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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editor's review is incorrect about camera...
Pros: fun phone... nothing to add that the others haven't already said...
Cons: the screen... serviceable, at best, but I do believe it will last through two years in my pocket... something I don't trust of some of the more fancy screens.
Summary: basically a beginner full keyboard phone that is probably too small to really text alot...
editor's review incorrectly states there is no self portrait mirror... open the silder, there ...Summary: basically a beginner full keyboard phone that is probably too small to really text alot...
editor's review incorrectly states there is no self portrait mirror... open the silder, there it is... and I find it actually is easier to use the camera with the phone open with long and skinny fingers... not sure how others will like it.1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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pretty decent phone
by tchumphrey_09 on August 5, 2009
Pros: great for texting
looks cool
really loud speakerCons: slow touch screen
non responsive touch screenSummary: i really like this phone as a whole but when you are texting upwards of 4 people the phone moves to slow to keep up with the incoming texts
Summary: i really like this phone as a whole but when you are texting upwards of 4 people the phone moves to slow to keep up with the incoming texts
1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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JUST DO NOT GET THIS PHONE. PLEASE !!
by livestchickever on February 12, 2012
Pros: It's loud.
- other than that, there is absolutely nothing i like about this phone.Cons: The touch sensitive keys press by themselves, it's really slow, super small, the camera is horrible, and it doesn't even matter if you have it on vibrate because even that's really loud.
Summary: This phone is terrible. The buttons on mine don't work, and with me being a teenager, i love texting. On a few occasions, I've dropped it on the ...
Summary: This phone is terrible. The buttons on mine don't work, and with me being a teenager, i love texting. On a few occasions, I've dropped it on the floor. After that's happened, it's literally about to snap in half. I swear i actually am going to throw it on the ground. It drives me crazy. Now i'm finally getting a new one tomorrow, and I'm glad i get to leave this piece of crap.
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Longest Survivor of all the phones I've ever owned
by RelientKatie on November 29, 2011
Pros: Ok, so I'm not very nice to my technology... I've dropped this phone on multiple occasions on various surfaces, I have even dropped it in a tub half full of water. It's the phone that takes a licking and keeps on ticking and it has great battery life
Cons: It glitches/spazzes out from time to time, like I touch the back of it and it does something like send a text before I'm done composing it or go into my contacts list but it's nothing compared to the things my friends have dealt with with this phone.
Summary: I am pretty sure I own the only one that has still worked after being left in the rain for an hour and also fully submerged underwater for 10 seconds ...
Summary: I am pretty sure I own the only one that has still worked after being left in the rain for an hour and also fully submerged underwater for 10 seconds without the battery being thrown in a bag of rice. I wouldn't suggest buying this phone though because, as I said, I'm pretty sure mine is a rare case. Everyone else I've met with this phone has had it break on them within a couple days/months.
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Solid, sturdy phone that fit my basic needs.
by Ice_Cream_Saturday on November 17, 2011
Pros: Sturdy design, wonderful keyboard, thick enough to hold comfortably, small and fits well in palm, like the partial-touchscreen idea, dedicated text-messaging key, very intuitive.
Cons: Keys can feel a bit stiff; screen is small, so the Internet is limited; boring UI; loading music is difficult; soft keys sometimes spaz out; unlocks itself.
Summary: This was my first phone, and for the purpose of a simple feature phone, it worked perfectly. It sent texts, made calls, took decent pictures, and could hold music. The ...
Summary: This was my first phone, and for the purpose of a simple feature phone, it worked perfectly. It sent texts, made calls, took decent pictures, and could hold music. The layout of the keyboard is the best physical one I've seen--it is spacious, and the space bar has its own row. Yes, when you use an Apple touchscreen and then go to type on the Rival, the keys feel very stiff. But it's still functional and easy to type on. It has a dedicated "new text message" key, too, which I use exclusively.
Then, obviously, there are plenty of cons, mostly because it's simply not a smartphone and lacks a full touch-screen (for instance, the Contacts list is slow to scroll through with the D-pad for navigation). Lack of customization irritated me most; the phone got slapped with a boring UI and terrible display themes.
The main complaint on this phone seems to be its quality. I've only had very few and minor issues. The soft keys will often spaz out and start pressing themselves repeatedly, which is annoying, but it's quickly fixed by sliding the keyboard in and out. I dropped this phone twice onto concrete from about five and a half feet, and it kept working. It's been going strong for nearly 2 years. As long as you treat it right (and sometimes even when you have accidents), it will work fine. -
Looks can be deceiving.
by Vikilla on October 9, 2011
Pros: Good battery life
Cons: Bad design. Control pad is designed terribly. Sd slot is placed awkwardly, the black shell casing that holds the battery is very flimsy. Lags randomly, especially when receiving a text message while viewing a picture or a video. Occasionally fails and res
Summary: This was the first phone I owned, and still currently own (unfortunately). I had bought this as my first phone when I was 16, thinking that it would be a ...
Summary: This was the first phone I owned, and still currently own (unfortunately). I had bought this as my first phone when I was 16, thinking that it would be a pretty good budget text phone. It was pretty decent at first, but then I began to realize all of the problems that plagued this phone. For starters, the call quality isn't very good, even when in an area of high reception. Many times the voices were scratchy and choppy, sometimes the background noise would be so distorted that I would have to hang up and try again. My friends told me that my voice would sound scratchy when speaking back to them on my Rival. Nothing to say about the camera or the video recorder, very low quality crap. Lag also seems to be an issue. This phone sends text messages at nearly half the speed of some other messaging phones from two years ago. Picture messaging would sometimes fail for no reason, even if there was a full signal. The touch screen sometimes worked against you. The keys would sometimes glitch or not respond at all when being pressed on the screen. Text messages would randomly send as blanks if I didn't cancel quickly enough, which is tricky to control itself. Moving on to the actual design of the phone, the outer casing design is mediocre. The black plastic cover that holds the battery is very flimsy and does not match the color scheme of the phone. The SD slot is placed awkwardly so that you would have to remove the casing and try to find the really small marker that tells you where to put in your SD card. The side buttons used to press for camera and voice commands are for some reason harder to press than the other buttons and more "slippery." The control pad fell of my rival, what can I say. The battery life is the only good thing about this phone. I don't know how I made this piece of crap phone work for 2 years, but now that I'm upgrading, I'm going to throw this phone off a 10 story building.
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Seriously, F**k this phone.
by Dzomb89 on August 25, 2011
Pros: QWERTY keypad
Cons: Everything else.
Summary: Had to replace it 5 times. The "touch" screen spazzes out all the time, send messages prematurely, shuts off when a certain number of text are in the inbox; typically ...
Summary: Had to replace it 5 times. The "touch" screen spazzes out all the time, send messages prematurely, shuts off when a certain number of text are in the inbox; typically around 250-300.
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BEST PHONE IN THE WORLD, DEFINITELY BUY THIS PHONE!
by savroxsox on August 10, 2011
Pros: Great texting,calls great,awesome touchscreen,automatic lock,great pics,awesome quality videos,good qwerty keyboard,perfect size,long batterty life(never needs charging!) and so much more!
Cons: No Cons Whatsoever!
Summary: Best Phone In The World, Never had to replace it! Everything was great, even though i dropped it alot, it still stay as good as new! DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THIS PHONE! ...
Summary: Best Phone In The World, Never had to replace it! Everything was great, even though i dropped it alot, it still stay as good as new! DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THIS PHONE! to anyone who wants a great phone! 5 stars no doubt! i kept this phone for over 2 years with no problem!
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Motorola
- Part number: 9370888
- Description: Out-thumb your friends with Motorola Rival A455, a loaded messaging machine that gives you one-touch access to IM-style texting and emoticons; a slide-out QWERTY keyboard; and a touch dial pad.
General
- Packaged Quantity 1
- Product Type Cellular phone
- Form Factor Slider - Full keyboard
- Phone Design PDA
- Integrated Components Voice recorder,
Digital camera,
Digital player - Antenna Internal
- Width 2 in
- Depth 0.7 in
- Height 3.8 in
- Weight 4.4 oz
- Body Color Tin silver
Cellular
- Technology CDMA2000 1X
- Band CDMA2000 1X 1900/800
- Service Provider Verizon Wireless
- Input Device(s) QWERTY keyboard
Messaging & Internet
- Cellular Messaging Services SMS,
MMS - Instant Messaging Services Yahoo! Messenger,
AOL Instant Messenger Service (AIM),
Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger) - Messaging & Data Features Text messages,
Instant message,
Multimedia messages (MMS),
Picture messages,
Voice mail,
E-Mail - Downloadable Content Audio files,
Video files,
Wallpapers,
Ring tones,
Games - Mobile Services VCAST
Communications
- Data Transmission EV-DO
- Wireless Interface Bluetooth
- Communication Features Internet browser,
Mobile Email client Phone Features
- Phone Functions Call timer,
Conference call,
Speakerphone,
Voice dialing,
Vibrating alert - Polyphonic Ringer Yes
- Ring Tone Formats WAV,
MIDI,
MP3 - Additional Features TTY compatible,
8 GB microSD card slot,
GPS,
Speakerphone,
Airplane mode Organizer
- Personal Information Management Calendar,
Calculator,
Reminder,
Alarm clock - Phone Book Entries Qty 1000
Memory
- Supported Flash Memory Cards Micro SDHC
Digital Camera
- Sensor Resolution 2 megapixels
Navigation System
- Navigation Software & Services VZ Navigator
Display
- Type LCD display - Color
- Technology TFT
- Diagonal Size 2.2 in
- Features Wallpaper,
Screensaver,
Backlit Connections
- Connector Type Headset jack - Mini-phone 3.5 mm,
Micro-USB Battery
- Run Time Details Talk - up to 320 min,
Standby - up to 510 hour(s) Miscellaneous
- Included Accessories Power adapter , Power adapter
Product series
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Motorola Rival (silver, Verizon Wireless)
Manufacturer: Motorola
Specs: Verizon Wireless,
CDMA2000 1X,
Up to 320 min,
With digital camera / digital player,
4.4 oz,
2 megapixels,
2.2 in
Manufacturer info
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- Manufacturer:Motorola
- Address:
600 N. Highway 45, Libertyville, IL 60048 - Phone: 847/576-5000
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