New and impressive, the Sony Ericsson Z530 mobile phone is a clamshell model of mobile phone that features a wide range of highly advanced features. The point worth mentioning is that this phone is the first officially released phone from Sony Ericsson that works with memory stick micro card. This cute and simple looking clamshell phone is comparatively small in size and weight. The phone is solid made with its plastic outer coverings. Also there is a matt rubber plastic on the front cover as well as the back cover that gives the phone a good grip. The physical aspects of the phone are also worth mentioning. The phone when compared to other clamshell models is smaller in size and also is less in weight. The device weighs just 93 grams, its width id 47 mm, its height is 90 mm and it thickness is measured to be 24 mm. The simple appearance of the phone can be made more and more attractive with its exchangeable covers. This phone comes in three attractive shades that are soft black, chromic grey and elegant red. The outer appearance of the Sony Ericsson Z530 phone looks very simple with not much features on the outer visible side except the camera lens and a self-portrait mirror. You have to flip open the phone to get the complete picture of the phone and also to view all its specifications and features. The new Sony Ericsson Z530 mobile phone is a triband phone that operates on networks with frequencies GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900. This phone features a dual display with the main display being the internal display. The internal main display screen is a UBC display screen with 65K colour supports and a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels. The secondary display is at the front side of the screen with a resolution of 101 x 80 pixels and it is a mono display screen. The imaging features supported by this phone is also very much inspiring. The Sony Ericsson Z530 mobile phone comes integrated with a VGA camera with a 4x digital zooms, video capture ability and it also supports video playback. The phone allows you to communicate with other compatible devices with the support of the integrated wireless Bluetooth technology, infrared connectivity feature and USB port. Data transfer is done via GPRS at a speed ranging from 32 kbps to 48 kbps. The phone also features some browsing capabilities. It is possible for you to browse the Internet with the support of the WAP and XHTML browsers. Just like other Sony Ericsson mobile phones available in the market this phone also supports some messaging features that operates at its best. The messaging features supported by the phone include multimedia messaging, text messaging, enhanced messaging, instant messaging and Email. The battery used in the new Sony Ericsson Z530 mobile phone is a standard Li-Ion battery with a capacity of 900 mAh. This helps the phone to promise an unbelievable talk time up to 9 hours and a stand by time up to 400 hours. Among the other features supported by the Sony Ericsson mobile phone the following are also worth mentioning.

1. Media player
2. 28 MB internal memory
3. Picture editor
4. Image viewer
5. Built in hands free speaker
6. Vibration alert
7. Polyphonic ring tones

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