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I have kind of steered clear of Nokia products after my partner’s Nokia phone stopped working one day before the warranty expired & when she contacted them two days later they didn’t want to know. Even the guys at Virgin Mobile tried to persuade them to help but no they weren’t interested.
So why am I reviewing a Nokia phone & won’t it be rubbish as revenge to the companies lack of help in the past. Well no, this review is based on a Nokia phone supplied by my ex employer & the review will not be influenced by previous experiences.
The Nokia 6300 mobile phone is rather lightweight & small mobilephone, no fancy flip up or slider action screens here, just a straight forward ‘candy bar’ style phone. If feels good in your hands, slide it into your top shirt pocket & you would never know its there. It has a brushed aluminum style face which extends to the reverse along with a ‘piano black’ shiny half, housing the camera. At the base are the sockets for the charger, headphones & such like.
The ‘on/off’ switch is at the top, the switch has a vague feel about it & on a number of occasions failed to switch on when pressed. Once up & running the small postage stamp sized screen is very clear indeed with intense colours. I have always found the software Nokia use on its basic phones a bit ‘clunky’ & this one is no different. There is no touch screen so all commands have to be scrolled through using the main centre mounted control, it works quite well with only the software letting it down.
From the main screen you can quickly press the centre control pad & get access to your phone book, calendar or operate the camera. My main criticism of the key pad is the little keys, being a man I frequently ended up pressing two keys together, particularly when you are in a hurry. However that’s a problem I find in most mobile phones, my fingers being the problem not the phones.
The little screen is adequate for most tasks but accessing the internet is a pain as you can hardly read the information as the screen is so small. Another pain is sending text messages, creating them is easy & Nokia have provided some time saving ideas such entering previous popular contacts but when you send them you get a message stating ‘your message has been stored for sending’ when its actually been sent, at first it was a real pain as you ended up sending them twice thinking it hadn’t been sent in the first place. Sound quality was first class.
Bluetooth connections are excellent & it paired up with a multitude of devices including built in car systems without any problems. There is one feature on Nokia phones that is always very good & that is the cameras. Considering this camera was pretty basic with no flash the quality of the photos was really very good, only dimly lit pictures taken inside a house came out grainy. A number of outside pictures came out really well indeed.
There are many features on this phone that I seldom looked at, basic games, music can be downloaded on to it & there is the usual notepad, diary & calculator.
Battery life is pretty much the same as most modern phones being more adequate than anything else. The charger connection is of the smaller type on this particular phone.
The phone is supplied with a software disc, instruction book, home charger & basic wired ear piece, a car charger is extra.
I have to say as a simple no nonsense mobile phone the Nokia 6300 was really quite good, it fells good in your hand & is very lightweight; just don’t expect much help form Nokia when things go wrong though.
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Advantages: Easy to use, (mostly) intuitive menu structure, robust, good sound, nice look and feel Disadvantages: After two years' use, poor battery life, wear & tear on the keyboard, a few weird storage bits
mattygroves 28.10.2009 ·
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