Sony Ericsson Z530

This is a middle class clamshell which is close to Sony Ericsson W300 technically, however is different in positioning. Besides, the phone has a slightly simplified UBC display with a passive matrix and has interchangeable panels, which is different to the W300.

• Class: multimedia, middle
• Position in the line: under Sony Ericsson Z520
• Rivals: Samsung E620
• Description based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in 2006, on the market since the 2 quarter of 2006
  • eGSM 850/900/1800/1900
  • Battery type Li-Pol 900 mAh
  • talk mode up to 9 hours
  • standby mode up to 400 hours
  • player mode up to 27 hours
  • Colour graphical display, high-contrast, up to 65000 colours (UBC), the resolution of 128x160 pixels
  • Outer display is monochrome, the resolution of 101x80 pixels, orange backlighting
  • Interchangeable panels Style-Up
  • Weight: 94 gramms
  • Dimensions: 90 x 47 x 24.5 mm

• Memory
  • Up to 1000 names with fields filled completely or partly. About 2500 numbers. Personal call signal, a picture to a name.
  • Call log of last 10 calls of all types
  • Internal memory forms about 20 MB, dynamically shared by all applications
  • Memory slot for Memory Stick Micro™ (64 MB included)

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibracall
  • Polyphonic call melody, 40-tones polyphony
  • Speed dial for 8 numbers
  • Automatic redial (up to 10 attempts)
  • Automatic and manual network selection
  • Voice dial
  • mp3 file as a call melody

• SMS
  • Predictive text input Т9
  • Smiles
  • Concatenated messages
  • Message templates
  • Graphical messages

• Camera
  • Integrated VGA camera, (the maximum resolution of 640x480)
  • Video in 3GP format (176x144 pixels, 15 fps)
  • 4x digital zoom

• Multimedia
  • Java (MIDP 2.0)
  • Integrated image editor
  • Musical composer, MusicDJ
  • VideoDJ
  • Play Now
  • Themes, several themes are preset - include not only wall paper, but sound, and graphical elements of the interface
  • Integrated video and audio player (MPEG4, H.263, AMR, MP3)
  • Photoalbum (My Pictures) - you can have extra pictures received from a PC or a camera
  • Games

• Connectivity
  • Integrated mail client (SMTP/POP3/IMAP4)
  • Instant Messaging
  • HSCSD
  • GPRS class 10
  • RSS
  • IrDA
  • WAP 2.0 (xHTML)
  • Bluetooth
  • MMS
  • Synchronization with PC (USB 2.0)

• Organizer and extras
  • Integrated file manager
  • User profiles
  • Screen headbands synchronized with sound and editable
  • Search in a to-do list, organizer
  • Dictaphone (only free memory limits).
  • Date, time
  • Alarm clock once and recurrent
  • Timer, stopwatch plain and with intermediate values calculator.

Michail Machnaev (michail.machnaev@mobile-review.com)
Published — 23 June 2006

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