The phone comes complete with a built in VGA camera with 4 x digital zoom. The camera comes with many fun & useable features which include a face warp feature that allows the user to have some fun by wiping a merged effect across a photo of a persons face & the outcome is very funny. The user can have hours of fun with the picture editor & picture effects features which allows the user to create the perfect finish to their personal photos. The Sony Ericsson Z530i comes with a integrated video record feature which is very quick & easy to operate therefore the user can be sure that they will never miss any of those special moments.

The phone has removable front & rear covers which can be easily changed to suit the users mood. The coloured covers are available are soft black, chromic grey & elegant red which all bring a very different & unique look to this very stylish mobile phone. The Z530i is pleasantly compact with the overall handset size being 90 x 47 x 24 mm. The phone weighs a total of 93 grams which is a fair weigh & suits the feel of the handset. The Z530i is a member of the Z range which includes the Sony Ericsson Z300i & the Sony Ericsson Z600 but they are all very individual phones which different integrated features.

The external display is monochrome. The main screen is colour but only supports 65k colours with a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels and is therefore not as highly specified as other phones of this type which offer up to 262k colours and 240 x 320 pixels.

The phone comes complete with a built in VGA camera with 4 x digital zoom. The camera comes with many fun & useable features which include a face warp feature that allows the user to have some fun by wiping a merged effect across a photo of a persons face & the outcome is very funny. The user can have hours of fun with the picture editor & picture effects features which allows the user to create the perfect finish to their personal photos. The Sony Ericsson Z530i comes with a integrated video record feature which is very quick & easy to operate therefore the user can be sure that they will never miss any of those special moments.

Standard battery, Li-Ion 900 mAh (BST-33)
Stand-by Up to 400 h
Talk time Up to 9 h

The battery life for this phone is very good. The standby time lasts up to 400 hours, and talk time lasts up to 9 hours.

Z530 offers very good music features. The phone plays both music and video files pretty well. Files are organized by artist or tracks. Playlists are supported as well. During playback of a music file, the player shows the track name and time progress. Video files cannot be played in full screen mode. Only time progress is shown when playing videos. The Media Player allows running in background when playing a song. It also can play when the phone is closed. Generally, the Media Player application of the phone is intuitive and easy to use. Our device didn't come in its official box so we cannot say for sure if there will be earphones in the package. What we did, though, is to test the phone with K750 earpieces. We played one and the same track on both the SE Z530 and the SE K750. Comparing the sound quality we must say that Z530 does produce a good quality sound but it's somewhat inferior to that of K750. Regrettably, there is no FM radio.

The internal memory of 28 MB will not let you store many songs, videos, sound or pictures but you will be able to store more with a memory card. You can buy an external memory card of up to 1 GB.

GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
The phone has an internet connection with GPRS. Many other phones in this price range have 3G or EDGE which are significantly faster.