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Motorola finally brought the new slider phone Rizr to the US market. We are always the last to get the latest cool phones it seems. While most of the world are standardizing on GSM, providers here are still fighting amongst more than 3 formats of cellular service.

They’ve taken out a huge ad covering an entire side of a building on the corner of 34th street and 8th Ave. Using the phone camera on my Moto Rizr phone, I’ve taken a series of 6 pictures over the course of a week showing how the painting came along. It’s really an amazing procedure seeing the little workers hanging from the side of the building painting.

The Rizr is basically a cooler slider version of the Moto Krzr phone. It reads MP3 music files, so you can use it as an MP3 player. And from the looks of the ad, Motorola is pushing it as an “imaging phone“, since it comes with a 2 Mega Pixel camera (really high-res for a camera phone) with a constant output light for dark places (like all the club pics I’ve been taking). The quality is not bad (not the greatest either). But since it can take a 2GB MicroSD memory card, it’s super useful for taking pictures and even plenty of videos when you are not carrying a regular camera or camcorder on you.

It’s available exclusively from T-Mobile right now. I’ve had mine since January when I bought an “unlocked” one to use on my trip to China (yes it’s a quad-band GSM world phone). I highly recommed it. Of course, if enough people start to carry it, I might need to switch and buy something even hotter and newer.