In a nutshell: Our favourite Nokia for years and the only Nokia phone ever to be rated 5 stars by our users. A classic design with a beautiful stainless steel finish. Slim, elegant, easy to use and with a good quality 2 megapixel camera, a built-in MP3 player, memory expandable to 2 Gbytes, and wireless Bluetooth connectivity. A must-buy phone!
Nokia's slogan for the 6300 is "Simply beautiful - beautifully simple." The beauty comes from the sleek, classic design with stainless-steel surfaces, and the simplicity reflects the fact that this is an all-round kind of phone: not a smartphone, not 3G, but including all of the functionality that most people want. Sounds like a winner! Could Nokia finally be getting back to what it used to do best - a phone that does just what you want and does it well?
Certainly the phone looks good when you pick it up. It's like the early 6-series Nokia's: exclusive- and expensive-looking, practically designed with a good sized screen and functional keypad, yet updated for 2007 with a 5-way navigation button and high quality colour display. The size is perfect: it's very slim (just 11.7mm) and not too wide, and the weight is enough to make it feel solid and substantial, but not so much that it feels heavy. The keypad is a decent size and is easy to use. The display is exceptional: a high resolution 240 x 320 pixel display with an amazing 16 million colours. On the outside the 6300 ticks all the right boxes.
On the inside, the phone is equipped with all the features that a typical user would expect. The camera is 2 megapixels with an 8x digital zoom and with a video recording function. Enough for casual photography, but not brilliant. There's a music player and an FM radio. A standard Nokia headset is included in the sales package and support for a Bluetooth stereo headset is included. Memory for storing music is limited, with just 7.8 Mbytes of user memory, however you can expand the memory to a maximum of 2 Gbytes by buying a microSD card, which will give you as much memory as an iPod Nano. Both Bluetooth and USB connectivity are supported, and the phone has GPRS and EDGE for fast data downloads. Battery life is excellent. The user interface is a standard Series 40 interface, that Nokia users will be used to, but with the latest enhancements. It's basically a very easy phone to use, with everything well thought out and some real attention to detail.
This is our favourite Nokia phone for a long time. It really is beautiful - quality just oozes out of the phone when you pick it up. The metallic finish completes the look, although this may show scratches if not treated carefully. Ergonomics and user-friendliness are good. The strange thing is that Nokia built their reputation with phones like this, but what have they been doing these past few years with their funky but unusable fashion-phones and their buggy brick-like smartphones? Welcome back Nokia! It was worth the wait!
Still not convinced? Here's a fact: the 6300 is the only Nokia phone ever to be rated 5 stars by our users (out of 100 reviews in total). So what are you waiting for? Go buy it! You can already find some fantastic deals online for the 6300. For instance Dialaphone are offering the 6300 free at less than half-price line rental and with a choice of free gifts ranging from a free memory card to an LCD TV. You'll probably find that a deal like this works out better than upgrading on your existing contract. On Pay as you Go you can pick up the 6300 from the T-Mobile website for just £99.99 on O2, which seems like a fantastic deal for such a good phone.
Features of the Nokia 6300 include:
* 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom
* Video camera (176 x 144 pixels)
* Display: TFT, 16.7 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2 inches)
* Music player (MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, H.263, H.264 formats)
* FM stereo radio with Visual Radio
* Integrated loudspeaker
* Voice commands and voice recording
* MP3 ringtones, 64-voice polyphonic ringtones, video ringtones
* Messaging: SMS, MMS, email, Instant messaging, Nokia Xpress audio messaging
* Push to talk
* Java games
* Personal organiser with calendar, To-do list, and notes
* Contacts (up to 1000)
* Alarm clock and countdown timer (normal and interval timer)
* Memory: 7.8 Mbytes plus microSD card slot (expandable up to 2 Gbytes)
* Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB
* Flight mode
* WAP, GPRS Class 10, EDGE
* XHTML web browser
* Vibration alert
* Triband
* Size: 106 x 43 x 12 mm
* Weight: 91g
* Talktime: 3.5 hours
* Battery standby: up to 14.5 days (350 hours)
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