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Nokia 9300

The Nokia 9300 has a fairly plain interface and its the menu system should be easily recognizable as it is strikingly similar to the earlier Nokia models. Its size is 132 x 51 x 21mm and weighs 167g with larger than normal buttons.

Like earlier Communicators, the main features of 9300 are evident once you open it up. It has a radiant 65,536-colour display and keyboard is in the useful QWERTY format. The keyboard and screen are responsible for many of the major phone functions prominent among them being SMS, e-mail and web browsing. 9300 has a small keyboard but is reasonably well built and a more effective device for serious data entry than keyboards of other smart phones.

Among the other impressive features of 9300 is the 80MB of inbuilt memory which can be increased with the help of the MMC card. Facility to use of MMC card is a good feature, but its placement is faulty. Residing beneath the battery cover, you’ll find yourself opening the battery cover a lot in case you need to chance the MMC frequently.

9300 is beneficial to the users in that it supports playback of music files and RealPlayer video files apart from normal programmes like Word and PowerPoint. A tri-band EGSM 900/1800/1900, it is competent enough to function almost everywhere you carry it along. Incorporated with Bluetooth, it can also be connected through the standard USB.

Performance wise, the 9300 gives positive results when its basic functions are tested. However, some phone features are a little problematic as you are continually required to utilize the internal keyboard for most tasks. For instance, you need to open up the phone for things that other cells would normally display on the screen like receiving contact cards and organizing SIM contract entries.

With the screen on one side and a keyboard on the other, there is no vibration facility available. The default ringtones are terribly inaudible compared to other and there are good chances that you might be able to listen to them in noisy environs.

If one’s used to other smart phones, it might take some getting used to Nokia's PC Suite software instead of the ActiveSync for transferring files and synchronising documents. The keyboard is too small for comprehensive work, but it is good enough for small document editing.

According to the manufacturers, the battery has 3-7 hours of talktime and 150-200 hours of standby mode. An advancement in the Communicators market, 9300 is very much like a portable office in your hand and hence is aimed chiefly at the corporate market sector.