Verizon Wireless Salutes ZTE’s First Handset on the Nation’s Most Reliable Network

Gotta love that headline eh? The name of the phone is the Salute, and Verizon is Saluting it, get it?! Anyway, I’ve never heard of ZTE, but the Salute is your basic slider phone and it’s available now for only $19.99 after $50 MIR and with new 2yr contract.

Verizon Wireless, the company with the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless 3G network, and ZTE USA, Inc., introduce the Verizon Wireless Salute. Available today, the lightweight, slim slider phone offers up to 240 minutes of talk time and up to 220 hours of standby time on a single charge. It is a reliable handset with the most important features customers need in a single device, including a 1.3-megapixel camera, speakerphone and Bluetooth headset support.

Key features:
  –  Stylish slider design
  –  Large 2.4-inch screen
  –  1.3-megapixel camera
  –  Mobile Web capable
  –  Messaging options include: text, picture and voice messaging; Mobile
      Email; Mobile Web Email; and Chat capable
  –  Bilingual interface: English/Espanol
  –  Micro USB 2.0 compatible

  Lifestyle features:
  –  Bluetooth® technology with support for the following Bluetooth
      profiles: headset, hands-free, phonebook access, and object push for
      vCard and vCalendar
  –  Media Center provides access to downloadable games, ringtones,
      wallpapers, location-based services and more
  –  Social Beat application – offers a single point for accessing social
      networking sites, allowing customers to stay connected to Facebook®,
      Twitter(TM) and MySpace®, plus more than 50 news, sports and
      entertainment feeds
  –  Backup Assistant(SM) application – saves and updates a copy of the
      phone’s address book to a secure website
  –  VZ Navigator® capabilities for customers to receive audible
      turn-by-turn directions to millions of points of interest and share
      the directions with others
  –  Preloaded with Bing Search

  Price and availability:
  –  The Salute is available today at www.verizonwireless.com and in
      Verizon Wireless Communications Stores for $19.99 after a $50 mail-in
      rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.  Customers will receive
      the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may
      use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.
  –  For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services,
      visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or
      go to www.verizonwireless.com