SAMSUNG: Samsung E530

Sunday 15 July 2012

Samsung E530

Looking at the petite size and lavender pink colour scheme of the Samsung E530, it doesn't take long to realise that this is a girly phone! Samsung's marketing blurb suggests that the E530 is the perfect shopping companion. We don't know about that, but it's certainly a lot less trouble than trying to drag a bloke into a clothes shop!

Despite its girly image, this is a high-spec camera phone that can almost match the Samsung D500 for features. The phone is equipped with a megapixel camera with an integrated flash and zoom, that can also record video (at lower resolution). The quality of the screen is high - a bright active matrix display that can easily be seen in daylight, with 262,000 colours and high resolution. There's a built-in MP3 player (with stereo output to headphones), MP3 ringtones, and a selection of games. There's even an exclusive set of "lifestyle features" with intriguing names such as "Fragrance Type" and "Pink Schedule". We have no idea what these are for or whether women really want that kind of stuff, but the E530 has got them.