Nokia 9300 Review

Introduction:
This cut version of 9500 differs in the absence of Wi-Fi, a camera and a less number of free of charge applications in a standard kit.
Class: communicator
Position in the line: under Nokia 9500
Rival phones: Motorola MPx

Specifications
General features
Announced: September 2004, in the market since the 4 Q 2004, official announcement on the 22 of September 2004
eGSM900/1800/1900
Battery type BP-6M, 970 mAh, Li-Pol
Battery life:
talk time up to 4.5 hours
standby time up to 200 hours
Full charging - 1 hour 50 minutes
High-contrast graphical display with the resolution of 640x200 pixels, 65K (TFT), not a touchscreen. External screen 65K, 128x128 pixels
5-positional navi button
The phone is run by Symbian OS 7.0s
QWERTY-keypad
28 menu languages, English and two extra languages may be used at the same time
Weight: 167 g
Dimensions: 132 x 51 x 21 mm
Capacity 126 cc

Memory
80 MB of memory are shared dynamically between the phone book, a calendar, messages, images and applications
MMC cards expansion connector (64 MB card in a standard kit)
A possibility to assign a photo to a name in the phone book
A possibility to keep Name, Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile phone number, Fax and E-mail address for a name — total number of fields is 8 (a possibility to increase the number at will).
The number of groups is not limited, a possibility to assign a name to several groups at the same time
SIM-card entries are stored separately, viewing them with the internal memory is impossible
Call lists, no any limits in the number of entries, all the entries contain a call type besides the date and the duration of the call. A possibility to set a storage period for calls in the list (a month by default)
MMS up to 100 KB for a message
Call management, ringing tones
Polyphonic call melodies, True Tones
Voice dialing for 25 numbers, voice tags
Loud speaker
Call duration is shown during a conversation
Musical editor, a possibility to assign melodies to the names in the phone book
mp3/AAC files as a call signal


SMS
Predictive text input ?9
Templates (10 are preset, a possibility to edit them or add own ones )
A possibility to send and receive graphical messages
Concatenated messages
MMS

Connectivity
WAP 2.0
Opera Browser
IrDA
Bluetooth
GPRS (4+2)
EDGE
E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4
Synchronization with PC via Bluetooth or IrDA
SyncML
SMIL
Instant Messaging
MMS
Organizer and extras
User's profiles(5), temporary profile
Time, date
Calculator, currency converter
Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate results), countdown timer


Organizer supports different kinds of events, reminders
To-do list
Dictaphone
mp3 player
RealOne Player: plays RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files
Photo album
MIDP JavaTM (2.0)
A possibility to load Java applications
Games

Review
The Nokia 9300 smartphone is like a little brother of the Nokia 9500 Communicator. It shares many of the features of the 9500, but misses out on others. Physically, the two devices are similar, with both having the benefit of a full QWERTY keyboard and a very large internal display (640 x 200 pixels, 65,000 colours). The 9300 is considerably smaller and lighter, but still a bit of a brick when compared to normal phones.