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The editors liked
Low price
Managable size
MicroSD up to 128GB
Windows Phone 8.1 Is Good
Battery Life Is Decent
Performance Is Quite Good
Windows Phone 8.1 runs smoothly
DualSIM functionality
Multimedia performance
Nice body
Wellmanufactured
Decent battery life
The inexpensive Nokia Lumia 530 is equipped for HSPA+ speeds and can hold up to 128GB in external storage. It includes Microsoft's most current Windows Phone OS
Fast quadcore processor. Windows Phone 8.1 Cyan seems to run well
Despite having only 512MBytes RAM. The apps and media files can flow onto the SD card
Meaning that the 4GBytes of internal memory is less of a problem
Windows store offers a reasonable
Price point
Solid and colourful design
Windows Phone 8.1 operating system improvements
Great value
Slick performance
Solid battery life
Very low price
Iconic Lumia design
Runs Windows Phone 8.1
Looks better than some budget phones
The editors didn't like
No front camera
Average battery
Little grip
Storage Situation Is Terrible
Display Is Awful
Boring Design
No 4G connectivity
Low memory
Poorquality screen
Mediocre speaker
Camera
A surprisingly slippery body makes you a constant butterfingers
And typing is tough on the small screen. The fixed focus camera won't take close-up shots
Any small text is hard to read on this screen
Camera is fixed focus & has no flash
So is less useful for eg. scanning documents… or as a flashlight
XBox Music app is peculiar. It doesn't want to replay the contents of a folder
Abstract: There's just no denying it when it comes to Nokia's lowest-end smartphone. It's designed to be cheap, however that isn't necessarily a bad thing. The Nokia Lumia 530 has an impressive pair of boots to fill, considering it's the successor to the widely-pop...
Abstract: The Lumia 530 is a smartphone I absolutely love for its price and functionality, Microsoft has created what I would like to refer to as the first true burner smartphone. Something you can use on the go, lose and no stress about and easily pick up starting...
The Nokia Lumia 530 is not a flagship device, but at its current price it could form the foundation of the Windows Phone 8.1 ecosystem over the next 12 months, and makes an excellent, easy to use and cheap device for those moving up from a feature phone.S...
As I was writing this review, news came of the first sub-£40 pay-as-you-go offers on the Lumia 530 in the UK. It seems that pricing breakthroughs are where the Lumia 530 is at - and will continue to be. Sub-£50 Android phones are uniformly horribly built...
Average-ish battery life, Screen rather washed out
For the money, we're really impressed by what Nokia's produced in the Lumia 530. If you want a no-fuss, user-friendly phone that can get online and do all your usual smartphoney functions, and even play games, this seems to be a great choice.Sure, the scr...
s The newer Snapdragon 200 with a Quad-core 1.2 GHz CPU is a better choice for Windows Phone. Games load drastically faster and navigating apps and doing regular OS tasks is a better experience. Some of this comes at a price though, as the Lumia 530 gives...
The newer Snapdragon 200 with a Quad-core 1.2 GHz CPU is a better choice for Windows Phone. Games load drastically faster and navigating apps and doing regular OS tasks is a better experience. Some of this comes at a price though, as the Lumia 530 gives u...
Abstract: The Lumia 520 is going to go down as the phone that drove Windows Phone in emerging markets and for those who want a budget phone. Therefore, it should be no surprise to see Microsoft pick up Nokia's reins with the Lumia 530, which is just now launching g...
Good value, Nice design, Performs basic tasks well,
Screen prone to ghosting, Limited internal storage, Sub-par camera,
The Nokia Lumia 530 plays the role of "my first smartphone" admirably. Coming from anything higher-end will definitely feel like a downgrade, but the Lumia 530 does a good job of providing a basic smartphone experience on a budget. If you've already got ...
