Nokia 6300

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Nokia 6300 Dimensions (w/h/d): 44 x 106 x 12 Weight: 91g Talk Time: 3 hours 30m Stand By: 348 hours Camera: Camera Resolution: 2.0MP Handset Type: Standard Coverage (Band): Tri Video: Bluetooth: Mp3 Player: Mp3 Ringtones: MMS: Java Games: Radio: GPRS: Email: Internet Browsing: 3G: Flash Memory: WiFi:

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Our Review of the Nokia 6300

Nokia's 6300 is a lightweight, thin candybar handset designed with a utilitarian styling in mind. Its traditional, unfussy exterior will appeal to those who want their phone to be a phone first, and everything else second; despite measuring a pretty slim 106 x 44 x 12 mm, its design is very reminiscent of the Nokia old school, the 3310 and its respective brick-like ilk.

The stainless steel finish of the Nokia 6300 lends the handset an certain degree of style, and the keypad is a breeze to use.

The stainless steel and glossy plastic jacket of the 6300 lends the handset a crisp, technologically desirable feel and the numerical keypad and menu keys are straightforward and simple to use. The menu software is clear and easy to navigate and the 2.0" TFT display is pretty sharp (16 million colours, 240 x 320 pixel res) and impressive for a phone that's almost two years old ('twas released way back when in January 2007).

The keypad of the Nokia 6300 is neatly lit from behind, allowing you to easily compose messages in the dark, and its chassis features two side mounted blue LEDs which draw your attention to missed calls or received messages by flashing intermittently. One minor gripe is that when writing a text message, you sometimes accidentally hit the 'Exit' button instead of the 'Cancel' key used for correcting mistakes, which takes you out of the text message editor. However, your half-composed message will be saved to the Drafts folder, so all is not lost, but it's still a little annoying. Better than it being lost altogether though.

The 6300 comes with the standard 2 megapixel resolution digital camera, which is solid and reliable without being mindblowing, but then the 6300 is not being sold as a high end media phone. The built in music player handles all of the most popular digital music file formats including AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3 and the seldom seen MP4, but not, unfortunately, WMAs.

The keypad of the Nokia 6300 is neatly lit from behind, allowing you to easily compose messages in the dark, and its chassis features two side mounted blue LEDs which draw your attention to missed calls or received messages by flashing intermittently.

Thankfully, with the microSD slot you are not limited by the pretty miniscule 7.8MB of internal memory, you can upgrade to up to a much meatier 2GB for picture and audio file storage. Bluetooth and USB connectivity options are available (2.0 and miniUSB respectively) allowing you to easily move your files to and fro from computers and other phones – a 128MB comes included with most 6300's standard, and you will want to move all your old files off of this one before shelling out for a bigger microSD.

As a 2.5G phone, the Nokia 6300 has some limited internet features, and comes loaded with a WAP 2.0 XHTML browser, and is capable of sending and receiving email, although if this is your priority, then you'll want to check out something which at least has 3G capabilities. The 6300 comes with a number of games such as Snake III (although we still pine for good old non-3D Snake II) and you can of course, download more Java games.

Battery life is good, only requiring charges every two to three days; you get around 3 and a half hours of talk time out of the little Li-Ion 860, and just under 350 hours of standby time.

 Pros

Compact, utilitarian design.
Pocket friendly dimensions.
Bluetooth and mini USB for PC sync.

 Cons

Lack of 3G.

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The 6300 may not be as cutting edge as some other handsets from the Nokia stable but it is reliable, and user friendly, and still sells well today. Due to its age, you can pick it up for a song, and on some competitively priced contracts.

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Nokia 6300 Review

Review by: anon8160 from , 2nd November 2008

i have been mis sold this phone as the battery life is very poor. in the book it says 240hrs standby, but only get 2 days! i found this out after my 14 days offer and now i'm stuck with a phone which doesn't suit my lifestyle! View Full Review

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LOVE IT!

Review by: Tardis744 from England, 21st June 2008

Awesome phone, advanced yet simple enough for anyone to understand. Good picture quality, can be grainy when dark but what 2g camera isn't!? Can get stylish cases rather than the original silver including new screens if it gets scratched. Battery life is brilliant, in full use all the time can last up to 4 days. Bluetooth is very fast with most other mobiles and although internal memory isn't massive you can purchase 2g+ memory cards to compensate and therefore can hold an awful lot of files.

Overall absolutely brilliant phone, works fabulously. Worth every penny (and i bought it when it fist came out at ?120!) Advise to you >>>> BUT ONE NOW!!! View Full Review

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Review by: jacoblsam from London, 30th May 2008

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inaccurate advert

Review by: richardjackson from Uk, 15th March 2008

The website says you get 300 free minutes on the "flext 25" deal for a 12 month contract. This is wrong; you only get 200 minutes. Tmobile know the website is advertising this service inaccurately but they say they cant do anything about it. How long it has been wrong i dont know, I noticed it on 15/3/2008 at 14:15 UK time. View Full Review

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TOO complicated

Review by: biggles777 from Bedfordshire, 31st January 2008

I have always had Nokia phones but this is just too hard for me to understand. There is no easy way to download music for ringtones after buying a cable and loading the cd. I don't want to go on the internet with it nor listern to music, just like to phone and text, cannont see the point of bluetooth either.
Just a waste of money. View Full Review

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Review by: visari from Kumanovo, 4th January 2008

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