NOKIA 6303i

The Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has recently announced an updated 6303 Classic as one of the new handsets it has planned to start the year right. But certainly not with a bang, more like a dud. The 6303 Classic that debuted last May 2009 was not exactly a handset we expected for the year, more like a feature phone Nokia resurrected from some forgotten 2006 phone blueprint and forgot to update it when it went into production. Now the world gets an updated one - the Nokia 6303i Classic with just the "i" appended to the name. You finally have a feature phone that should have been released a year later in 2007.
Features at a Glance;
The 6303i gets upgraded from the 7-month old 6303 Classic with a higher 55 MB memory from 17 MB. No big deal and should support a couple more games on the handset. Its microSD expandability gets a boost from 4 GB to 8GB. See what we mean? That's the memory card that became common back in 2007.
But to add insult to injury, the new handset downgrades a decent VGA video recording at 15fps into QVGA at 8fps. Unless we are seeing a typo error on the spec sheet, we think it would have been better for Nokia to just have taken this feature out. Other than these, the two models are basically twins.
* This is a tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900) on 2G with GPS/EDGE data connectivity. You get Bluetooth 2.1 and microUSB 2.0 for local data transfers with a PC or laptop.
* Multimedia comes with players for mp3/wav/eAAC and WMA audio formats and H.263 and H.264 for video formats. There's a stereo FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth A2DP for wireless stereo headsets and a 3.5mm headphone jack for wired regular headphones.
* Imaging is its standout feature with a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash. However, video recording is a disappointment at QVGA at 8fps and a smaller QCIF at 15fps.
* It's your conventional candybar measuring 108.8 x 46.2 x 11.7mm and weighs a pocket-friendly 96 g. You get the same 2.2-inch QVGA TFT LCD display with 16 million color support.
* Its 1050 mAh Lithium-ion battery delivers up to 8 hours of talk and up to 515 hours in standby. Music listening gets up generous 30 hours playback time.
* Software-wise, it carries Nokia Maps 2.0, instant messaging support, the usual email clients as well as a WAP 2.0 HTML browser with Flash Lite 3.0 support.