Motorola ZINE ZN5 Review

Messaging:

Everything is organized as expected here. When typing a message the text input can be predicted by the iTap system (Motorola’s alternative to the T9) which works just fine. Once multimedia content is inserted, the message turns into MMS. There are preloaded templates for both Text and Multimedia messages, which can be edited; new ones can also be added.


The e-mail client supports IMAP and POP3, and it also has automatic settings for the most popular web mail servers, meaning that in order to setup your e-mail account, you generally only have to enter your login info. In addition, the ZN5 comes with a preloaded Google menu (found in the main menu) with two options for fast access to Google.com and Gmail.


Connectivity:

As we’ve previously mentioned, the ZN5 is a quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) phone, which makes it usable on all continents. It doesn’t support 3G but it has built-in Wi-Fi. Unfortunately if you are not covered by a wireless broadband network you’ll have to rely on EDGE, which is really slow according to the modern standards.

With high-speed (about 8Мbps) Wi-Fi, large pages such as PhoneArena and YouTube load easily in the HTML browser, but when using an EDGE connection some pictures do not appear and are marked with an “X” instead. Unfortunately, the text is not automatically shrunk and you’ll have to use the Fit to screen option so you can avoid scrolling like crazy. On top of that, the memory seems to be insufficient and after opening a few large pages consecutively a message appears, notifying you that the browser will exit. Overall it is OK for viewing lighter sites but has problems with more complex ones.