The Nokia 6300 is a mobile telephone handset produced by
Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...
. It was announced on 28 November 2006 and released in January 2007. This model was assembled in several factories, including Jucu plant, near
Cluj
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, in
Romania
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.
The Nokia 6300 is a mid-ranger combining a classic candybar design with a durable
stainless steel
Stainless steel is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion. It contains at least 11% chromium and may contain elements such as carbon, other nonmetals and metals to obtain other desired properties. Stainless steel's corros ...
and slim (11.7 mm thick) body. It runs on
Series 40
Series 40, often shortened as S40, is a software platform and application user interface (UI) software on Nokia's broad range of mid-tier feature phones, as well as on some of the Vertu line of luxury phones. It was one of the world's most wi ...
. The 6300 was a hit and became one of the top-selling Nokia models on the market during its time. Slightly improved models
Nokia 6301 and Nokia 6300i were launched later in 2007 and 2008 respectively.
The 6300 was considered to have been the successor of several models, including
6230i and
6310i.
Features
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The phone supports
MicroSD
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The standard was introduced in August 1999 by joint efforts between SanDis ...
cards up to 2 GB (4 GB with the
6300i variant), meaning that the phone can be used practically as an MP3 player. Using the supplied and freely available
Nokia PC Suite
Nokia PC Suite is a discontinued software package used to establish an interface between Nokia mobile devices and computers that run the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its first release was in 1997, originally called Nokia Data Suite. I ...
, one can convert all the MP3 files in a music library to
e-AAC
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC) is an audio coding format for lossy data compression of digital audio defined as an MPEG-4 Audio profile in ISO/ IEC 14496–3. It is an extension of Low Complexity AAC (AAC-LC) optimized for ...
in order to fit more on the card. The 2.5 mm headphone jack means that few commercial headsets will fit the phone, however there are adapters available enabling the use of headphones with a standard jack.
Like most other new Nokia phones, the 6300 eschews their old
Pop-Port
The Pop-Port interface (originally code-named "Tomahawk") was a proprietary plug-in port for accessories and data synchronisation, available with many Nokia mobile phones. The port consists of one metal pin on either end, and a plastic tab conta ...
connector for a standard mini-
USB
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connector. At the launch many questioned why to include the USB port for data, but not for charging. Nokia's support for USB was desired, but slipped to a later release.
The phone also has two slow flashing lights on the side, to show missed calls or messages. This feature is an update of the reminder light in the 6060 fold phone that did not have an external display
With firmware version 06.01 and later, Nokia 6300 is capable of playing
MPEG-4
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(*.mp4) files with a
QCIF CIF (''Common Intermediate Format'' or ''Common Interchange Format''), also known as FCIF (''Full Common Intermediate Format''), is a standardized format for the picture resolution, frame rate, color space, and color subsampling of digital video s ...
resolution of 176*144 at 25 frames per second. The phone allows the user to view the video clips in full-screen landscape mode and set the fast-forward/rewind interval from a few seconds to minutes. Improved audio quality for music playback was also noted for this firmware version, thus making the Nokia 6300 a music phone similar to its counterparts, the Nokia
XpressMusic
XpressMusic was a brand name for a line of Nokia mobile phones that were specially designed for music playback. All of the XpressMusic handsets came with expandable MicroSD memory slots and dedicated music keys, so these phones could also be used ...
. In addition, video clips can replace ringtones so that an actual motion picture is shown while there is an incoming call.
Popularity and reception
Nokia 6300 was a highly popular mobile phone handset throughout the world, officially the best-selling Nokia handset in 2007. A report from ''
The Economist
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'' said that Nokia 6300 was the most popular handset in Africa as of the beginning of 2011, four years after the original release.
Reviewers of the handset generally praised the build quality and feature set. Reviewer ''S21'' called it "our favourite Nokia phone for a long time", praising the user friendliness and metallic design.
The 6300 was succeeded by the
Nokia 6303 classic
The Nokia 6303 classic is a mobile telephone handset produced by Finnish manufacturer Nokia. The Nokia 6303 classic was announced in December 2008, it has been in production since May 2009. It is the successor to the Nokia 6300 (even though Phon ...
and
Nokia 6700 classic
The Nokia 6700 classic is a mobile phone made by Nokia and successor of the 6300 and 6500 classic. It was announced in January 2009 and arrived on the European market in June that year. It has a stainless steel body and a chrome-covered keypad ...
.
Nokia 6300i
The Nokia 6300i is an upgraded version of the Nokia 6300 with the same design but adding
Wireless LAN
A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network
A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes.
Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and bus ...
and
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms Internet t ...
capability and support for 4GB
microSD
Secure Digital, officially abbreviated as SD, is a proprietary non-volatile flash memory card format developed by the SD Association (SDA) for use in portable devices.
The standard was introduced in August 1999 by joint efforts between SanDis ...
cards (the 6300 could only support up to 2GB microSD cards). It was announced on 26 March 2008.
The device is designed for typical use in
Europe
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and only distributed there.
Specification sheet
References
External links
Nokia 6300 Product page
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Mobile phones introduced in 2006
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