Volume: 56 cc
Weight: 91 g
Length: 106.4 mm
Width: 43.6 mm
Thickness: 13.1 mm
Display: Main display: 2 inch 240 x 320 pixels (TFT) QVGA with up to 16.7 million true colors
Price range: $193.60 to $355.15
This is a small, light, candybar handset. Measuring 106mm x 43mm x 12mm and weighing 91g it doesn’t break any records, but it does feel comfortable in the hand and lightweight in the pocket; and that’s despite the fact that there is quite a lot of metal in the fascia.
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?
The number pad is slightly squished into the bottom section of the phone, but its keys are pretty large nonetheless, and the squishing means there is room for a sizeable navigation button and well spaced softkeys, Call and End keys.
The screen is a bit small at just two inches corner to corner, but it displays 240 x 320 pixels and a massive 16.7 million colours, and as a result it is pin-sharp.
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.
The glossy plastic used in the 6300 is good; in fact it is similar to that found in Sony Ericsson T610i. Even though it draws scratches and finger-prints, they are not too prominent, unless you start examining it, of course. The metal is exposed to wear and tear as well – first grazes appear in a week’s time, but you won’t stumble upon them at first. Overall, all surfaces of this kind suffer from the same “illness” – Nokia N91 is not an exception with is battery cover.
Weighting only 94 grams, the 6300 fits in hands pretty well and can be carried in any desired fashion. The handset is easy to use, yet retains a number of shortcomings in ergonomics. In light of the face it makes use of dual-interface layout, on Sony Ericsson’s “advice”, dedicated volume keys have been moved to the right side in most phones. This proves to be handy when this key doubles as zoom-button in camera mode. However since Nokia 6300 houses only a single side-mounted key, specifically the volume rocker key, why would they need to relocate it to the right? To blindly follow up the trend? But it is not convenient, and due to being hard-to-push and placed quite deep inside the casing, this key won’t make the user very happy.
Key features:
Compact modern design featuring sophisticated stainless-steel covers, glossy black finish, and rounded edges
Reminder lights to quietly draw your attention to missed calls and unread messages
Catch and keep those treasured moments with the 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom
Side volume keys conveniently act as zoom controls for camera close-up shots
Get entertainment when you want it with the music player, FM stereo radio, and video player
See more at a glance with the 240 x 320 resolution screen with up to 16 million true colors
Access your email on the go and send messages with attachments
Store music, videos, and photos with up to 2GB expandable memory
Multimedia:
Music player supporting MP3, MIDI, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
FM stereo radio with Visual Radio
Streaming video (3GPP)
DRM release 2.0
XHTML browser
Java: MIDP 2.0
Macromedia Flash Lite 2.0 for richer digital content
Other features:
Flight and demo mode
FOTA – Firmware update over the air
Imaging:
2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom
Full screen viewfinder
Video recorder and player
Messaging:
Email client with attachments (Java version)
MMS: OMA MMS 1.2 for creating, receiving, editing and sending multimedia messages (messages up to 300 kB)
Push to talk
Instant messaging
Nokia Xpress on audio messaging (AMS) – a fast and simple way to send voice or sound clips via MMS
