Samsung E530 Review

Overall Rating

Nice small phone, very stylish, good features, good battery life

WAP can be expensive on O2 pay and go contract

This review is based on the Samsung E530 on an O2 pay and go sim card.
This is the best phone I have ever had (and I've had quite a few). I've had it 9 months now and the battery life still far exceeds most other models of phones, even when they are brand new.
The display on the phone is fantastic, colour phone, with a range of different settings to make the phone unique for you. It's really simple to set up passwords both on the phone, the sim card and even on your messages, phonebook etc so it's up to you how secure the phone is.
Has a good quality camera and can record film, camera has approx 82mb of memory so plenty of space for music, photos and film. It also has a sound recorder, so as well as ring-tones you can record your own or use the Bluetooth function to send music to your phone.
As for SMS memory and phonebook memory, an O2 sim card can hold 10 SMS messages and 100 contacts while the phone can hold 200 SMS messages and 1000 contacts so plenty of space for both. With the phonebook contacts each has space for first and last name, mobile, home and work number, fax number, other number, email address, a picture to recognise the contact by, and other notes per contact. You can also set a ring-tone for a particular contact so you know who's calling without looking at the screen and you can set your contacts into groups.
The phone has a number of applications including games (Bobby Carrot, Airship Racing, Arch Angel, Freekick come with the phone and more are available to download), an O2 music player, lifestyle options (which include fragrance type, biorhythm, height/weight ratio, calorie counter, pink schedule and a shopping list), a voice recorder, world time, alarm, PIM sync, calculator, converter (can be used for currency, weight, length, volume, area or temperature conversions), a timer, and a stopwatch.
The phone also has a calendar which you can set schedules, anniversaries, memos and a to do list, and it allows you to set an alarm for any of these which you need reminding to do.
Finally, the phone is WAP enabled, however I rarely use this feature as it can be quite expensive to use.

Overall, the phone is a fantastic buy, when I first purchased the phone it cost £160, however my sister got one a month ago for £100 on a pay and go contract, so for the price it really is fantastic. Great battery life, plenty of features, nice and small and stylish. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a new phone.