There’s a new sheriff in town, branded Moto & Verizon and called Rival, launching today via the previously mentioned carrier. Here’s a live photo of the device, sent in to the folks of Phone Arena by one of their tipsters. Will you get one?

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Moto Rival is a CDMA dual band device, that’s 3G capable and supports CDMA2000 1xRTT/xEV-DO rev.0 connectivity, incorporates a Li-Ion battery and a 2.2 inch touch display with a 176 x 220 pixels resolution. The handset also packs a 2 megapixel camera with support for video capture, digital zoom, white balance, frames and effects.

A microSD/microSDHC slot is also on the specs list, together with a video and music player, a full QWERTY keyboard and predictive text input. Motorola Rival also comes with GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, Stereo Bluetooth, USB and WAP 2.0 plus a 3.5mm headphone jack and voice dialing.

[via Phone Arena]

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