Nokia 6300

Good phone for avoiding the big screen of todays touch screen phones. Beyond the voice and texting, the difficulty of using the other apps and features reduce the desire to get addicted to browsing the internet. Overall, it'll save you time. And yet, if it's so important that you need youtube, mapping, web surfing, and a QR reader (for menu's and other things) this phone can do it. It also makes for a good phone for middle-schoolers. One odd thing is that snakie didn't work. The other odd thing is that the battery charge % doesn't display by default in the upper corner. Need to go through the menu to find out.

I had high hopes for this phone. All the bad reviews seemed to be people complaining that it doesn't have the same features of a smart phone (obviously) or that it's too hard for their grandmother to use. I have never owned a smartphone and this seemed like a good replacement for my Blackberry. It was not. The texting is absolutely horrible and aggravating to use. You cannot make it default to predictive text, meaning you have to press the # key 4 times EVERY single time you text to set it to predictive/T9. Why can't that just be the default? In the predictive text it is impossible to type the words "I" or "I'm", which is just unbelievable. You can't add them to dictionary either. There is no good way to capitalize letters using T9 either. It automatically installs pay-to-play games the first time you activate it, they cannot be uninstalled. With Ultra Mobile (Mint Mobile) voicemail cannot be accessed. Cannot play MP3's using an AUX cord or USB cord in my car, or any other vehicle. Even my MP3 player from 2007 can do that. When the display shuts off anything you have open will be closed. If you're in the middle of writing a text and set the phone down for a minute, the text is gone, no draft saved. MP3 player will often shutoff when screen goes dark too (but not always) Randomly drops signal and it can only be recovered by switching airplane mode off and on again. Have missed important texts and calls for this reason. Interface is SLOW and cumbersome. Often have to open and close text menu to get it to work. I feel like designers of this phone put too much effort into making it "smart-ish" while neglecting the basics, like easy texting. This is an utterly frustrating device to own and absolutely not worth the price. Save yourself the grief and buy something different.

Nokia missed the ability to hit a home-run with this phone. The 4G support on multiple bands, available memory and reasonable processor means that this phone has the ability to support a lot of features. However, the KaiOS operating system is buggy, poorly supported, and clumsy. I've tried contacting Nokia and Kaitech directly about issues that I've had and the customer support is almost non-existent. The phone features the ability to sync calendars and e-mail with built in google support. ActiveSync is also a featured protocol but doesn't appear to be supported. According to Nokia KaiOS doesn't support it at all, but the option is available in the phone, so that's confusing. Trying to sync with my Office365 account, with the correct settings and credentials, the phone returns an "incorrect username or password" error. I have confirmed with my company's IT department that the settings are correct and features enabled-it's an OS issue. Google sync with Gmail seems flawless and reasonable quick. Syncing with Google Calendar is a miserable fail. After multiple attempts to sync my calendar with the status bar showing that a sync was occurring, but nothing ever happened, I finally resorted to deleting my calendar and manually entering events one-by-one. This seemed to correct the problem, but I have to wonder at what point will the sync decide to stop working again. Alarms do not activate on time. They are consistently 6 hours off from the set time. Nokia's response was that I was either setting them up wrong, or I needed to reset the phone to factory settings and try again. A solution that works most of the time is to set the phone to not automatically sync the date and time. Setting the time zone manually fixes the problem. Usually. If an alarm goes off at the wrong time I can delete it and re-add it and it will usually work correctly. Not knowing if an alarm is going to go off at the correct time is a big issue for anyone who relies on the alarms. The screen is difficult to view in direct sunlight unless the brightness is turned all the way up. Which you then need to reduce when you're indoors unless you want to go blind. Having a TFT display would improve that, and improve battery life. Speaking of which, battery life really isn't that great. If you want a phone that will last a week or so without charging, look somewhere else. I find myself charging this phone every night with very little usage. Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi calling are great. The hand-off from Wi-Fi calling to cellular can be a bit rough at time and has resulted in a few dropped calls, but I've found that as long as I have good LTE service there isn't a problem. You can only reassign one button. The left button will always be for notices and the right one will always be for camera, unless I've been unable to find a setting to change that anyway. The KaiOs store is a joke. There are a few useful apps, but far and away the majority of them are ad-filled games that are just reskins of other games in the marketplace. The phone is larger than you would think a feature phone would be. If you're looking for a small pocket phone you might want to look elsewhere. It's not nearly as large as a smartphone, but it's still tall. Google Assistant works well, which is good since it's about the only efficient want to use texting or email. Predictive text works better than some other feature phones, but it's really nothing to brag about. You can quickly type out messages if you're aware of the quirks, but the biggest complaint I have is that you cannot set it as the default input method. Even though you have it turned on in the settings, you still need to press the # key four times in order to switch to predictive input. It's more annoying than you'd think something like that should be. If Nokia would ditch KaiOs, revamp their Series30 or Series40 operating systems and go back to their roots, they would be a lot more competitive in the feature phone market. Instead of trying to rebrand nostalgic devices, either re-issue the legacy device with 4G and WiFi support, or build something better from the ground up. There are plenty of "dumb phones" on the market, but to have a candybar style phone that supports wifi calling, Office integration, a useable app store, and still be a reasonable size seems a bit of a unicorn. If there's anyone familiar with a Nokia 301, that would be just about the perfect phone to add newer features to and re-release.

I purchased this phone to use as a secondary to my iPhone 13 Pro Max. I have been using the phone on AT&T over 2 months. The phone is very well built, and works very well. The phone is responsive and quick; however, some Kaios apps can be glitchy and crash. For example doodle jump will not work at all. With that being said, the phone is excellent regardless, and gathers a lot of attention.

Nokia, a brand you can (still) trust.

Es muy buen celular para los que digan que no, cumple con todo lo que mencionan aquí, puedes usar What's App, YouTube, puedes escuchar música si le agregas una tarjeta SD y hasta puedes ver películas si les agregas una tarjeta con ellas y tiene un impresionante volumen para imaginárselo, pero llega un punto en el que ya no carga bien y hay que estarle moviendo el cable para que se pueda cargar hasta que ya ni moverlo sirva, además en eso la batería nomás le dura como una hora más o menos. Sí lo recomiendo bastante, es útil para no rastrear y así y con lo de la batería, pues lo pueden llevar a arreglar sin problema, el celular en serio lo valdrá

Wanted a simple but latest mobile loaded with social apps for my mom… and this phone is just amazing. Good battery life, big screen, build is good, overall a decent mobile…. Rough & tough

Me parece un teléfono muy práctico y funcional. A veces hasta quiero cambiar mi Smartphone por un modelo así.

This model has all what you need as a smartphone