Bought this phone for my 11 year old daughter. 50 bucks for a smartphone, what was I expecting? (I'm thinking $20 digital camera of a few years ago...yikes!! that was bad) Needless to say, I wasn't expecting much, but I am blown away by what you can get for 50 bucks. Obviously, it is not the same as my top of the line Samsung Galaxy, but it can basically do all of what you would want the smartphone to do. Pictures look good, screen is great, speed is fine, it even has Bluetooth, and internet tethering capabilities. I think it is a fantastic phone for a kid, and if it was all I could afford, I wouldn't be disappointed with it for myself either. Yah, you get what you pay for, but in this case I can think of a lot of other crap that I have bought for my kids for 50 dollars that is nowhere near the power of this high tech tool. Oh, and if she breaks it? The replacement would cost about the same as the phone case did for my Galaxy, ha!
FYI: We have T-Mobile with five lines, 2.5 gigs on each line, unlimited everything else for $120 a month. We like their service.
However. . . this is not a knock on the phone, but the Windows operating system. Microsoft has amazing "Family Safety" settings for all their products except... the Windows phone. You can set it up so that kids cannot purchase apps and only have access to downloading kid friendly games, but you cannot apply the internet filtering settings, which apply the kid's PC account, to their phone account. There are also not a lot of kid safety apps, browsers, or options on the Windows phone. I'm crossing my fingers that Bill Gates asks his friends at Microsoft to make the family safety settings available to the phone.
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| Price | $31.03 | $90.70 | $79.00 | $88.97 | $199.99 |
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| display size | 4 inches | 6.5 inches | — | — | 6.5 inches |
| memory capacity | 4 GB | 2 GB | 32 GB | 32 GB | 32 GB |
| model name | Lumia 530 | Motorola Moto e13 | Moto G Play | Moto G | Moto G Play |
| operating system | Windows 8.1 | Android 13.0 | Android 10.0 | Android 7.0 | Android |
| connectivity tech | USB | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB | Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi | Bluetooth, Wi-Fi |
| service provider | T-Mobile | — | — | Verizon | AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Boost, U.S. Cellular, Republic Wireless, Google Fi, Cricket (AT&T sub-brand), Tracfone (GSM), Tracfone (CDMA), Ting, Mint Mobile, Walmart Family Mobile. |
| input interface | touch screen | touch screen | — | touch screen | touch screen |
| water resistance | water resistant | water resistant | water resistant | water resistant | water repellent |
| cellular technology | 4G | 4G | 4G | 4G | LTE, WCDMA, GSM, CDMA |
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The Nokia Lumia 530 is a simple rugged little phone
I have the Lumia 530 going on 6 years now and have had zero issues with it on the T-Mobile Network.The Mother board is simple and and tough without all the ribbons to connect each components like the more expensive phones of today that the screen will crack if you even bent the phone putting the battery in or it falls onto a carpet floor.It's a great rugged and simple Windows phone and even has a hot spot that works perfect on a 2G and 3G network.if you can get one that hasn't been abused or damaged from being dropped from a 4 story building. lolI purchased one from a seller here that sent me the Lumia 530 that was missing the Up volume button and when I contacted the seller about it he said he tested the phone before shipping it "dead battery included?".I seen that it would be useless to pay more for S&H and still not get my money back so I told him he should do a better testing job.
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