Nokia 6300

It is not exactly letting you in on a secret to tell you that mobile phones these days can be complicated (and expensive) pieces of equipment. But not everyone wants their mobile phone to help connect them to their companies email server, or to translate an essay into Chinese, which is why Nokia have come up with the 6300 – a phone designed to be simple. Indeed their slogan for the phone reads “Simply beautiful – beautifully simple”. With a statement like that it is obvious that Nokia weren’t going to use this mobile phone to try replace the computer or games console!

What you do get is a sleek, classic design that incorporates stylish stainless-steel surfaces and a simple beauty. It doesn’t try to hide that it is a phone behind touch screens or sliding fascias, instead it simply says ‘I am a phone, here I am’, and does so in a strikingly stylish manner.

This really is a phone that is designed with style and practicality in mind. The screen is a high quality one, as you would expect from a manufacturer of Nokia’s reputation. But more importantly the buttons are easy to use, being well spaced and defined. Too often buttons get cramped in together, making it too easy to hit the wrong one by accident.

And functionality goes further than that. The software is an easy to navigate and user interface, that is very intuitive no matter what level of technological expertise you have. It is certainly not one of those phones that you need an IT degree just to use!

There is a 2 mega pixel camera (including 8x digital zoom) as well as some of the ‘basics’, and when we say basics we don;t mean that it just makes calls – even stripped down mobile phones like this one can do a number of different things these days.

The 6300 hundred comes with all the essential multimedia options. Integrated radio, MP3 player, video recorder and gaming all feature highly in the 6300 – and can be downloaded or connected to computers via a number of methods, including blue-tooth or USB connections. In addition the 6300 integrates both EDGE and GPRS systems for faster data download.

With this phone it is important that you look past what the features it offers are, what the spec is, and focus instead on what is important. It is a very stylish phone, with a classic design that is still in fashion, even after all these years (a lifetime in the technology sense). It has all the essential options but, and far more importantly, it is also an easy to use phone that most people will find simple to master in a very short space of time.

It won’t win any cutting edge technology awards but it will give you a phone that is able to act like a phone, and with the influx of next generation phone models trying to organise everything in your life for you it is certainly refreshing to have a phone that remembers, at heart, that it is a phone first and foremost.

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