Review: Motorola ZINE ZN5
Browser
The ZN5 has T-Mobile's newer version of T-Zones. This new version has a carousel of items that run across the bottom of the screen. You scroll through them sideways to access different content from T-Mobile, such as music, news/weather, games, wallpapers and themes. It is less cluttered than the old version of T-Zones, and it is nice to have the content sorted into different pages. One important thing to note that this is actually a Java application.
Using the icons, you can get to the real Internet by selecting the "Web". At the top is a search bar, followed by a list of items such as sports, and so on. Once you select anything from this list, it closes the Java application and opens the browser. The ZN5 does not have 3G, so it is limited to T-Mobile's EDGE network. Even so, it brought up sites such as CNN and The New York Times' mobile sites in short order.
The default is to grab WAP sites, though you can force it to open HTML sites if the option is there. It is much slower at opening HTML sites, however, and it is best to pretend that it isn't even an option.
The menu system of the browser gives you enough control over it to make interacting with the Web manageable. Adding and arranging bookmarks is a snap, you can zoom in and zoom out, as well as open multiple windows, view the screen as a single column or fit the Web site to the screen's size.
Customize
The ZN5 is preloaded with a large number of ringers and five different ringing profiles. MP3s can also be set as ringtones. The ZN5 offers a few themes and color schemes, and you can always download more from T-Mobile. Wallpapers can be set as the home screen, and the main menu can be viewed in several different styles.
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