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.

I've had this phone for almost two years now. So I guess that tells you that it's not the worst. It's definitely not the best though either. The buttons are way too small and cheap and stop working after awhile so that you have to press them a bunch of times before they respond, or they get stuck. This makes texting a nightmare. Some other people have complained about the inability to set predictive texting as the default. I'm used to T9 but it's very tedious and slow with the above mentioned small, crappy buttons. Group messaging is awkward because your reply gets sent as individual messages (although I guess there's a workaround mentioned in some reviews, I'll have to try it). In order to even receive group and picture messages I had to change something in the settings based on advice I found in another review on this page. KaiOS is simply a stupid, badly designed OS. Everything about it is clunky. If you are typing out a message and get distracted for a second and your phone goes to sleep, the message is now gone. There is no way to minimize an app. When I was setting up the email, I needed to receive a security code via text message, but the message wouldn't come through as long as I had the email app open. When I closed it, I got the code, but then when I opened the email app I had to start the email setup process all over and the code was then worthless. Sometimes the phone doesn't tell me I have a new text message until I open the message app. The timer is also unreliable when the phone goes to sleep. It's too tedious to explain all the ways this OS is terrible. The phones some of us had 18 years ago looked like this but worked so much better. I have found WhatsApp useful, including as a group message replacement. The email also works just well enough to be helpful in a pinch but not well enough to rely on or be distracted by, which is kind of great. The Google Maps app on this phone is... cute, really. I could never get the gps to work though so it's only helpful if I already know where I am. Yes, it's not a smartphone so I didn't buy it for these features, but they are kind of nice to have once in awhile.

I like this phone! It works perfectly with Red Pocket Mobile. My "acceptable" condition phone arrived with no cracks or scratches anywhere. Like most feature or "dumb" phones, the Nokia 6300 4G is affordable, better suited for young children due to the lack of available social media apps, also good for those who want to detox from smartphone use due to the lack of financial, social media and Android or iOS only apps. From it's KaiOS Store app, you can also download and use the 'KaiMFA' app, a perfectly functional and secure Authenticator app on the Nokia 6300 4G with your 2nd factor authentication secrets and/or authenticator QR codes for free. The Nokia 6300 4G has good email capability, easiest with Gmail accounts because Gmail accounts do not need a 3rd party app secure key like Outlook, Yahoo, ATT.net or currently.com emails accounts do for this phone. To setup email access for Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, Att.net or Currently.com accounts on it, you need to choose the "Advanced Setup" option for "IMAP" to be used instead of the default "POP" for full email access capabilities along with an app specific password active on your email account. The only cons are that the Nokia 6300 4G should have been also WPA3 Wi-Fi capable being made after the certified Wi-Fi device requirements for those made after 2020; Nokia should have added voice to text for help with texting and typing for all their feature phones including this one; has several mobile game apps which are bloatware that cannot be uninstalled.

So .. I wanted a dumb phone as an exit out of the smart phone world. As the 4G capable dumb phone selection is not exactly huge, and following the reputation of Nokias, my choice quickly fell on this guy. Had the phone for a year now and what I expected was simple: • text and call (and do so well!). • basic apps like a flashlight, a calculator and a reliable alarm clock. • custom ring tones • compatibility with smart phone texting • Have a long-lasting battery (long as in a week at least) What I got: • calls work well, texting not at all. You'd expect that even a dumb phone is at least capable of texting fluently, but after about 3 weeks, it started "lagging" with all keystrokes. Meaning, every other couple letters were punched in multiple times with a single button press. An absolute nightmare to text with (and it made T9 completely useless). I thought initially, this is a defect, and was about to get a replacement, but then I read up on it and it turns out this is a very common problem with the phone due to its stone age processor or something. • Basic apps worked, no complaint here. • Custom ring tones worked. • Smart phone texting was only really compatible with a single person. As soon as you replied to a chat with several contacts in it, your messages would be sent out individually to every person, creating a separate chat for them. Made me look awkward on several occasions. Additionally, it glitched out sometimes, so you would receive the replies twice, once in a group chat and once as a single message. Not fun. • Battery is fine, but also rather underwhelming. From a phone of this caliber, I expected better than just 3-4 days in idle. Definitely the deal breaker and the ultimate reason for this bad review are the lags. If you already make a phone that basically just calls and texts, at least make it good at those tasks. The other stuff is somewhat excusable. Sorry Nokia. This was a disappointment for me, and certainly not worth 70$. Maybe 20$ as some sort of emergency phone.

This phone feels like an alternate universe answering the question of how pre-smart phone era phones would have naturally evolved. Smart phones, as smart as they are breanded, lack features old phones use to have: 1. Longer batery life 2. Simplicity (simplicity is a plus nowadays) 3. Radio (forget about paying a monthly subscription, internet data and stream. Radio has been for about 100 years and strong. Its free!) 4. SD Card (put the music and podcasts you want from your PC) 5. Dual SIM, physical sims so you can get things done easier. e-SIM and chip-less solutions tie things up and my experience at stores is that they are still getting it right. 6. Physical keyboard. Small buttons, yes, but I make so many less mistakes and using predictive is justt awesome for those of us who know how to use it. KaiOS is definitely well designed. 7. Podcasts. There is an app store and there is a great pod casts app as well as RSS app (what we would be using had Twitter never existed) to consume content from RSS providers (BBC, TechNet, Yahoo News, etc). 8. Etc. I'm very excited to get the most out of this phone. I've replaced my iphone with this and have never looked back (save for Uber rides and Uber eats, they both now live on my tablet and when I dont have it handy I go for regular cabs. Usually to and from airport).