Nokia 9300 Test Drive
July 17th, 2005 at 08:17pm
Got hold of Nokia 9300 smartphone for a day. My uncle has bought this handset. He handed it over to me for a test drive / setup kind of stuff. Was experimenting with it for all the time today morning.
I always thought that my Nokia 6600 was kind of bulky, but after using this, i am kind of happy ;). This one is bigger, and heavier too. But it looks cool. Infact, it looks very professional. Kind of very high tech.
Ok. Coming to my observation…
The only major difference feature wise between nokia 9300 and nokia 6600 is the keyboard or keypad. Otherwise both the phones have more or less the same features, including most of the software (not all). 6600 has a camera/imaging functions. Nokia 9300 does not have it. Its cousin nokia 9500 has the camera too.
The screen is kind of too narrow. 640*200 (w*h). Like an tower. The aspect ratio is 3.2:1. On the other hand, nokia 6600 is 176*208 (h*w) pixels.
Nokia 9300 runs on Series 80 platform. The UI is pretty neat, but i found that it lacks consistency. Could have been better. And since it runs on a series 80 platform (s80) , the programs that run on s60, (i.e., nokia 6600) wont directly run on Nokia 9300. You have to find the appropriate versions.
I managed to get Smart Movie player, and Ultra MP3 for Nokia 9300. Ultra mp3 player rocks on 9300. But when it comes to smart movie player, the broad screen is of little use. Most of the screen is unused. I also installed some games on it. Clearly, 9300 is not a gaming machine.
One very good thing about nokia 9300 is the response time. The UI is pretty fast and responsive at most of the times compared to Nokia 6600. Also, lot of stuff is natively supported. For e.g., you can open word docs, spreadsheets, presentations etc. But in case of Nokia 6600, you need to add some additional software. The same is the case with MP3 playback. Also found that the bluetooth transfer works much faster with this phone. It rocks. Internal memory is 80 MB, which is one major plus point.
Nokia 9300, current cost in Bangalore/India - around 30K INR
Nokia 6600, current cost in Bangalore/India - around 11.5K INR
At the end of it, i am still happy with Nokia 6600 :) One major plus point about nokia 6600 is … there are tons of software already available for it, and its very popular, and affordable.
Tags: 6600, 9300, cell phones, mobiles, nokia, nokia 6600, nokia 9300, smartphone
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16 Comments Add your own
1. bachu | February 9th, 2006 at 10:18 am (subscribed to comments)
i will proud to using nokia 9300
2. digen | April 28th, 2006 at 2:52 am (subscribed to comments)
i love my smartphone
3. parav | May 3rd, 2006 at 3:18 am (subscribed to comments)
its my smartphone and i love it
4. Harchintan | June 17th, 2006 at 3:35 am (subscribed to comments)
I agree Nokia 9300 is not a gaming machine but one who supposed to play games still….need not to buy 9300…..he better buy N-gage
In my opinion
This is a best handset one can get for complete mobility for a business perosn,connect to pop mails etc, attachment support and best part is wide screen and use internet just like PC
Music is OK on 9300 but not great
Little dissappointed to see the performance of smart movie on this as on series 80 it is great
5. harshi | July 19th, 2006 at 2:31 am (subscribed to comments)
i have also nokia 9300 , very high speed and ultimate phone
6. neetesh jain | August 14th, 2006 at 7:42 am (subscribed to comments)
nokia 9300 is a good office product.
7. suveer | September 17th, 2006 at 11:10 am (subscribed to comments)
its the coolest phone,its got great functionality and looks so damn sexy, i never faced any problem
8. Kumar Iswaran | January 28th, 2007 at 5:13 am
This is by far the best PDA phone. The front key-pad is a brilliance… nothing can feel so good to use and yet the feedback given is so confidence inspiring, I feel it can never get spoilt.
On the inside, I can do anything I do with a laptop. Outlook, Internet period. I never appreciate a camera in a phone. A cam should do it’s job and a phone must do it’s job. I like this complete package.
Until I can get my hands on an Apple iPhone, this is it!
9. Shashank | March 8th, 2007 at 10:08 pm (subscribed to comments)
I thing my Nokia 9300 is the best phone i have ever used. It’s clarity, its look,it’s Sound(specially head phones) are the best features. Its processing speed is also faster. on one view it is a complete need of a person.
10. paddy | July 29th, 2007 at 1:14 pm (subscribed to comments)
Hey dude 9300 is a professional phone its not an gaming phone or music phone I am proud user of 9300
11. bharath | August 10th, 2007 at 6:47 am (subscribed to comments)
hi
i am using 9300 past 1 year and till now i did not get any keygen for the ultramp3 software which i downloaded 2 months back
the skins in ultramp3 1.52 is great and also one software skinner is very useful to create skins
please send the keygen to me at bharath7127@gmail.com
or send me the reg key imei 355369000519975
thanks
12. tushar goyal | September 26th, 2007 at 10:05 am (subscribed to comments)
nokia 9300 is a very good phone.
but it has no vibration
13. Amarjit Singh | October 3rd, 2007 at 1:48 am
I own this 9300 for abt 2 years now. i feel gr8 no probs whatsoever.
with right kind of software and applications…get it going….
14. sohil | November 10th, 2007 at 6:30 am (subscribed to comments)
nokia 9300 is the best phone for me its ultimate mobile
15. jigar parikh | February 19th, 2008 at 10:01 am (subscribed to comments)
i m using nokia 9300 since 1.5 years. i love this phone very much . i like it’s nice look, big screen, speed & many more thing. i m proud to user of nokia 9300. i think that the who have not use this he not a perfect mobile user.
16. babu | May 6th, 2008 at 3:52 am
anybody have smartmovie soft ware for nokia 9300i if you have
pls send it to my mail id
babunemmara@rediffmail.com
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