As the holiday shopping season starts to gear up, Verizon has launched two new mid-range handsets from Motorola.

The VU30 [1] is a standard EV-DO flip phone with a 2-megapixel camera, V Cast Music with Rhapsody, VZ Navigator and external music controls. It retails for $129 with a two-year service contract and a $50 mail-in rebate. Verizon also unleashed the VU204, a scaled down version of VU30, with a VGA camera, PC syncing capability, Bluetooth and a personal organizer. It sells for $29.99 with a two-year service contract and a $50 mail-in rebate.

For more:
- see this article
[2]- see a pic of the VU30 [3]
- see a pic of the VU204 [4]

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