Ever since the legendary Nokia 6310i, the 6000 range of handsets from Nokia have produced some of the most enduring and immensely popular devices that have ever been sold in the mobile phone industry. The 6000 series is responsible for the soap bar styled Nokia 6600, upgrade to the market leading smartphone of the time, the Nokia 7650. As well as other popular Symbian based devices, the 6000 series also brought to market some top selling S40 based devices, including the Nokia 6230, Nokia 6300 and now one of the most recent, the Nokia 6303. The 6303 has proven to be a worthy successor to the 6300, one of the most popular devices of all time, and now Nokia have released a new version, the 6303i Classic. As with previous ‘i’ upgrades, the 6303i just offers a slight tweaking of the basic components of the device, without compromising anything that served to make the original a popular choice.
The main upgrades with the 6303i Classic revolve around memory. So the device now offers an internal capacity of 55MB instead of 17MB, and is capable of officially handling memory cards up to 8GB in size, instead of the previous 4GB. You will also find in the box that the device now ships with a 2GB card, instead of a 1GB card as previous. Other than that the 6303i Classic still offers the familiar line up of features that have made the 6303 one of the top selling handsets of recent times. The fact that it can be purchased for such a good price on Prepay, generally around the £100 price point, is certainly a contributing reason to the device’s success. But that should not serve as a pointer to belittle the handset, what it offers compared to the price you pay is very good value indeed.
To go through the main features of this device, then, the Nokia 6303i Classic comes with a very good Point ‘n’ Shoot 3.2 Megapixel camera, with autofocus support and a dual LED flash. The device is also enabled for video recording, although truth be known, the resulting quality isn’t that good, and is of a standard that would work for MMS at best. It certainly wouldn’t look great if uploaded to any social media sites or YouTube. But this is a minor point, in the grand scheme of things, and you wouldn’t be buying the 6303i if video recording capability was important to you. The 6303i however does have some other redeeming features that will be of interest to the majority of mobile phone users. And chief amongst these is a very impressive battery life. Nowadays, with the popularity of smartphones, it is not uncommon to need to charge your phone on a daily basis, if not twice a day in some instances. The Nokia 6303i Classic in comparison offers a much better battery life, and almost re-introduces us to a modern mobile phone that will ‘last the distance’ if you go away for the weekend and leave your phone charger at home.
One feature that can take advantage of the excellent battery performance is the built in music player. The handset can offer a music playback time of up to 30 hours from a single charge, which is pretty good going and certainly amongst the best offered from a mobile phone. The music player on the phone is of a standard S40 look, with support for playlists which can be chosen from a pre selected list, or from personal lists created on the phone. Music can also be browsed via genre, album or artist. As well as a music player, the handset also has a built in stereo FM radio, with RDS support, and we also find Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP for stereo audio streaming. For normal cable headphones the 6303i includes a 3.5mm audio output jack, allowing you to choose headphones more suited to your own personal comfort than standard supplied headphones tend to offer.
The 6303i Classic is exactly the same size and weight as the 6303, weighing in at just 96g, and sports the same size and type of display, TFT QVGA screen measuring 2.2 inches and supporting up to 16 million colours. All the standard colour variants of the 6303 will be included, as well as being available in White on Silver and Khaki on Gold variants. The Nokia 6303i Classic is expected to be available to market by the end of Q1, and should sell for the same price as the 6303 currently does.
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8:26 am
You would like this phone as soon as you pick it up for the first time. After my previous phone, this is a huge improvement. The quality of display and information is pretty good. Buttons are convenient and visible.