Philips 530

• General features
  • Announced in July 2003
  • GSM 900/1800
  • Battery type: Li-Ion 720 mAh
  • Battey life:
    • Standby time: up to 230 hours
    • Talk time: up to 4.30 hours
  • Graphical TFT 65K display (128x128 pixels), which can show up to 5 text lines and 2 service lines.
  • Colors: Red, Silver, Black, Blue and others
  • Dimensions: 98x44x18 mm
  • Weight: 85 g.

• Memory
  • Phonebook: up to 300 entries; up to 5 phone nubmers and 1 e-mail can be assigned to one entry
  • Up to 20 caller groups in the phonebook; a possibility to assign own melody to different caller groups. Fotocall function - any picture can be assigned to each group
  • Up to 100 SMS-messages can eb stored in the phone memory, they can be secured by a password
  • Up to 300 events in the organiser; the memory of the organiser is combined with the phonebook memory, for example, if there are 100 events in the organiser, only 200 entries could be added to the phonebook
  • Memory is dynamically shared between dictaphone and files
  • Total memory pool is 2 Mb, only 450 kb is occupied

 

• Ringing tones, call management

• Vibrating alert
• 16-tones polyphonic ringing tones
• 30 ringing tones, a possibility to create own melodies
• HR, FR,EFR and a new voice codec - AMR
• 40 voice tags (for menu and voice dialing)

• SMS
  • Predictive text input T9
  • SMS, EMS
  • 10 templates

   

• Connectivity
• WAP 2.0
• GPRS(4+2)
• irda
• Synchronization with PC
• e-mail(POP/SMTP) - up to 2 accounts
• MMS

• Organizer and extras
  • Screen saver as a clock or graphical picture
  • FM-radio, 20 stations can be stored in the memory
  • External VGA-camera
  • BeDJ
  • Java - the company promissed to add in the 1Q 2004, but most likely it wouldn't be available in this model
  • Organiser: up to 300 events. Weekly, monthly views; recurrent events.
  • Time, date, alarm-clock
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Voice memo; number of records is limitted only by free space; the length of records depends on free memory
  • Game - Bricks

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published - 25 February 2003