Review: ZTE Salute
Browser
The Salute comes with a Polaris WAP browser. Paired with 1xRTT data, this combination is enough to make a person reach for a phone book, instead. The Salute offers one of the slowest, barest browsing experiences I can remember.
First, users are forced to navigate through Verizon's dusty and depressing home page, which, admittedly, does have shortcuts for basic information, such as the weather and sports scores, but hasn't changed in forever.
To navigate to anything on the open web requires a terrible experience of diving through menus, pecking out URLs triple-tap style, and praying that the Salute can find the web site and load it without wigging out.
Loading pages is so slow, one could easily make a trip to the lavatory in between pages. This device is not meant to be a primary mobile web consumption machine. Rather, it's obvious due to the hardware and software limitations that data on the Salute is more for the most casual of use.
Customize
The Salute can be customized as much as any other phone in its class. Wallpapers, ringtones, alerts, and such are all easily adjusted to suit user tastes. As noted earlier, users can also adjust the D-pad shortcuts.
The order and placement of icons in the main menu can be reorganized at will, though the tools to do so are a bit clunky. It can also be set to a list, or tabbed styles. There are also three themes that adjust the coloration of menus, text and backgrounds.
When it comes to fonts, the dialing font can be set to small, medium, or large. The menu fonts can be changed to different fonts, as well as increased or decreased in size. The dialing fonts are large enough for even the most sight-challenged person to read, but the menu fonts can't be made all that large.
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ZTE Salute
