«Nokia 6300»: characteristics and reviews about the mobile phone

The Finnish company Nokia at one time was the leader of the market for phones and smartphones. Probably everyone remembers the models that had the most progressive design, a large number of functions and very high reliability. With the arrival of touchscreen smartphones running Android OS on the market, Nokia products began to go into the background. The reason for this is the wrong direction and bad enough development with an overestimated cost. But still remember and admire the former power of the company. Today I would like to slightly "ponostalgize" and consider the model "Nokia 6300", which began to be produced at the beginning of the already distant 2007.

Appearance

All phones and smartphones of the Finnish company were manufactured in strict forms. The phone "Nokia 6300" was not an exception. The characteristics of its appearance are standard and easily recognizable. Although at the time of release, the forms were innovative with inherent "Nokiev" angularity.

The phone case consists of plastic with inserts of stainless steel. The outline is framed by an attractive metal frame. The removable back cover is also made of steel. It additionally adds confidence and presentability to the Nokia 6300 phone. Feedback on the cover in some cases can be quite negative. The fact is that due to the use of not very successful latches, it did not fully move.

Having looked above the lid, you can see a large square eye of a digital camera with a 2 Mp matrix. All forms and design solutions are aimed at rigor. For this reason, the phone from the very beginning gives the impression of a model for business people.

The front panel is equipped with physical keys, a screen and a hole for the conversational speaker. The keyboard has a four-way joystick and a selection button in the middle. Its location is quite convenient, and when managing the phone no problems arise. This can not be said about the buttons for rejecting or receiving a call. Judging by the feedback of users, they are very small. The backlight of the keyboard is bright and allows you to easily navigate in the layout in poor lighting.

Side buttons and connectors

The right edge of the phone has a volume control button in the form of a "rocker". It allows you to control sound in applications, as well as when talking on the phone. The upper end is equipped with only a power button. In order to not accidentally press it, it is recessed into the body. The left edge does not have connectors and buttons. As for the bottom end, then the manufacturer has packed everything that remains: a charger port, a 2.5 mm headphone jack and a connector for connecting the phone to the PC via a USB cable. It is worth noting that the last element in the kit does not go.

Screen

As the output device of information in the phone in question is used QVGA-display with TFT-matrix. Its diagonal is 2 inches. As for the colors of the screen, there are 16 million of them. The image looks very bright and juicy. Agree, this characteristic of the Nokia 6300 phone at the time of release was very presentable, and all aspired to such parameters.

When viewing the image at an angle, a slight fading and a glare is noticed. But you can be sure, then under sunlight everything will be seen very well.

Menu

The menu in comparison with other models of that period did not change at all. The firmware "Nokia 6300" received a small update platform to the second service pack. Selecting one of the four display options, you can make the phone a bit more diverse.

You can change the display of icons using themes. Two of them are already preinstalled in the phone itself, and three more can be found on the memory card that comes bundled. But, despite the mapping itself, the functionality does not change, and every element here is standard. Virtually nothing has changed in comparison with a few early models.

Setting up the Nokia 6300 is carried out immediately upon purchase. Since more often people buy a new phone along with the starting package, the consultants enter all the necessary data for access to the Internet. Further, all the procedures for changing the appearance, displaying the main menu, etc., are made by the user himself.

Multimedia features

Well, we reached the multimedia capabilities of the Nokia 6300 phone. The characteristics of the internal memory frankly disappoint, since 7.8 MB can put only a few photos or a couple of audio recordings. But in the standard configuration is a microSD card with a capacity of 128 MB. By today's standards, this is very small, but at that time - the standard.

All games and additional applications are located on the flash drive. If desired, they can be deleted or transferred to the phone's memory.

In addition, the phone has the latest Macromedia Flash Lite 2.0 at the time. As a music player used exactly the same as in the Nokia 5200 and 5300. When playing music in headphones, the quality is pretty good. In addition, you can adjust the equalizer with preset values or independently set them.

Connectivity

Naturally, the standard operation is GSM / EDGE (900/1800/1900, 850/1800/1900) networks of the Nokia 6300 phone. The characteristics of Bluetooth 2.0 and EDGE (EGPRS) Class 10 at that time were very good. In addition, the "blue tooth" involves the addition of paired devices, which greatly facilitates the transfer of data.

Synchronization with the computer is done using a cable and special software. The firmware is updated with FOTA technology.

User Reviews

Since the phone has already been on sale for more than seven years, there have been a lot of reviews about it. Naturally, the majority is good, but there are isolated cases of disgruntled descriptions. The most frequently heard about the "Nokia 6300" reviews concern the battery. With active use, she often does not survive until the end of the day. The solution will be the acquisition of a more powerful power source.

The "Nokia 6300" features are simply delicious at the time of release. For this reason, all phones of this model literally flew off the shelves. Especially since there were no big complaints, and the traditional Finnish quality here is always on top.