Display and Build:The Lumia 530 is a budget smartphone from the house of Nokia/Microsoft and sticks to the design of Lumia smartphones since their inception. The phone has a 4” IPS display of 854*480 resolution. The phone is available in a variety of colours and has swappable back covers. The Lumia 530 design has been refreshed since the past few 500 series models and looks more rounded.
Internal Specifications and Operating SystemThe Lumia 530 has a dual core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor coupled with 512 MB RAM. It has a proximity sensor and accelerometer. The phone has 4GB internal storage expandable via a micro SD slot supporting upto 128GB cards and the devices is powered by a 1430 mAh battery
The 530 ships with Windows 8 out of the box and can be upgraded to Windows 8.1 via OTA. Microsoft is offering 7GB cloud storage with the phone through Microsoft Skydrive. An update to Windows 10 is due to come soon.
CameraThe Lumia 530 houses a 5MP camera with autofocus but unfortunately lacks flash and a secondary camera. The video recording capabilities of the device is good at 480p SD recording at 30 fps.
ConnectivityThe Microsoft Lumia 530 has Quad band GSM, GPRS, EDGE, Dual band 3G with HSPA, A- GPS, GLONASS, FM, Bluetooth v4.0, microUSB for charging and USB connections. The phone has dual sim with dual standby.
Final WordsThe Lumia 530 specs are not the most overwhelming but it's a window phone with good classic features from Nokia and stable hardware. The Lumia 530 battery life is excellent and Windows has matured significantly since its introduction, it may very well one of the best windows phones for the price. The Lumia 530 price is the biggest attraction and should attract quite a few takers as it is the successor to the highest selling windows phone, its predecessor, the Lumia 520.
