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The Nokia 6303 is one of the best 'basic' phones on the market. It's small and slim yet easy to handle, and is superbly well made. It's also great for making calls on, has a vast battery life, doubles as a great little mp3 player and even has a half decent camera. It has its limitations when it comes to browsing the web and keeping up with your social network but the only real fly in the ointment is its use of a proprietary charging socket, which in this day and age is a major faux pas. Read full review

Overall

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Edward Chester

By Edward Chester
Reviewed 08 March 2010
Updated 26 May 2011

Price as reviewed

£84.97

  • Review
    • 1: Nokia 6303 Classic
    • 2: Nokia 6303 Classic
    • 3: Feature Table
    • 4: Sample Photos
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  • Reviewed by Edward Chester
  • 08 March 2010
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Nokia 6303 Classic details

Performance
8/10
Value
9/10
Features
6/10
Design
9/10
Overall
8/10

Price as reviewed

£84.97

Manufacturer

Nokia

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1:16 AM on 8 March, 2010

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Thanks Edward. I have been looking for a small, simple and cheap but well-made phone, because sometimes the enormous smartphone is just a pain and a liability. I had just about given up hope of finding such a phone under £100, but this seems to be exactly what I was after.

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10:59 AM on 8 March, 2010

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This would be ideal for my mother if only it was 3G enabled so she could use it with her Vodafone Sure Signal.

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10:20 PM on 8 March, 2010

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I bought this phone yesterday as my iPhone is broken, it's a good basic phone but be warned:





The alarm is VERY quiet!! I don't know when or if Nokia will fix this but since I bought the phone I've read lots of people complaining about it. If TR could pass this along to Nokia to try and get it fixed that would be great :)





I'm surprised this wasn't noticed in the review.

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10:28 AM on 9 March, 2010

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I've had my 6303 since august, would really reccomend, fantastically simple, great battery life and it is really sturdy. Have dropped it several times on the floor in various places and it has stood up to it! Also as mentioned in the review the camera is really suprisingly decent considering the price of the phone.





Wouldent reccomend it as an mp3 player thougth as the lack of shortcut keys for it can make it a bit of pain.

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10:41 PM on 9 March, 2010

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I got this phone since 2 months now. I can tell you that this phone is extra ordinary as a simple to use phone. The best bit is the build quality. As soon as you touch the phone you know good it is to use...I would recommend this phone to anyone who is looking for simple and cheaper phone..buy it..

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9:10 AM on 16 March, 2010

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I've had both a 6300 and a 6303 and really think they're the best non-smartphone you can buy right now. Massive battery life, easy to use, good basic functionality (the countdown timer in particular is incredibly useful and I'm surprised more phones don't include one as standard) and the 6303 even has a halfway decent camera.





My only complaint would be that both phones have been VERY scratch-prone on the screen. They're kept in a pocket either on their own or, recently, with a MiFi dongle yet my 6300 got several nasty scratches and the 6303 has two areas of... it's kinda hard to describe, very light scratches that almost make it look like the screen is 'fogged' slightly. Definately scratches though. Poor for a phone that's going to get chucked into bags, pockets etc without the sort of protection a more expensive handset would get.





On a side note, how come so few phone manufacturers are producing handsets like this anymore? I went looking for a new handset on the weekend and there's nothing with decent mid-range specs under £100 that's not a touchscreen phone with a proprietary OS. Yeuch.

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2:10 PM on 27 March, 2010

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I got one of these back in December. As soon as I touched it I was shocked! I didn't expect much, it was a freebie from Vodafone when I renewed my contract but it really does feel well made! It actually feels better than any recent £400+ smartphone I've handled, which just goes to show how poor the market is becoming.





Great little phone, fantastic battery (1-2 charges a week, rather than the 1-2 a day I have with the iPhone) and perfect as a back-up to a smartphone.

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9:16 AM on 6 June, 2010

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Speediness? This is quite literally the slowest phone I have used since the Samsung T100 - which, at the time, was quite cutting-edge.





Yes, the phone is sturdily constructed and features one of Nokia's over-specified 16 million-colour LCD screens, but this is somewhat useless when the handset takes an average of 5-10 seconds to even open a text message, and as seen in the video, considerably longer just to display the applications list.





Other notable issues are that of multi-tasking - because the phone is generally slow to register everyday key sequences (i.e. locking the phone often occurs 2-3 seconds after the Menu+* sequence has been pressed) - which is compounded further if multiple key sequences are entered in quick succession - the whole interface feels quite clunky.





Multi-tasking on this phone is dreadful - an attempt at playing music and viewing photos at the same time will, inevitably, lead to the phone crashing in a manner reminiscent to a full-shutdown, which causes a hard reset to be performed to bring the phone back up.





As a simple phone, I will concede that the Nokia 6303 is fantastic (speed gripes aside) - however, if you want to use any of the extra functionality (including mundane options such as the Calculator) at a usable level, this is not the phone for you.

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