The budget Huawei Ascend Y530 (photos)

The Huawei Ascend Y530 is a 4.5-inch Android smartphone costing only £120, SIM-free. That money gets you a dual-core processor, Android Jelly Bean and a 5-megapixel camera.

It's not exactly the most beautiful of phones.

The ridged back panel adds a slight element of interest, but it's still not a phone for the fashion conscious.

The 5-megapixel camera gave some fair results for a budget phone.

Back, home and menu buttons sit along the bottom.

There's a micro USB port on the bottom edge. Inside the back cover is a micro SD card slot, which you'll need to use to expand the meagre 4GB of built-in storage.

It's slim enough to get into your pocket with any trouble.

The buttons on the edge have a satisfying click to them that helps make it feel reasonably well put together.

The display is low resolution and doesn't have great colours.

It's running on the older Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, over which Huawei has slapped its Emotion UI.

Emotion UI lets you apply themes that change the colour schemes and app icons.

It also has a simplified mode that shows the essential tasks as big tiles -- much easier for Android newbies to get to grips with.

That's a pitiful amount of storage. Some apps are too big by themselves to fit on the Y530.