Nokia 6300 4G, all carriers, 2.4 Inch UK SIM Free Feature Phone with WhatsApp and Google Assistant (Single SIM) - Charcoal

i have mixed feelings about this - I have bought two of these phones - one is excellent and I am happy to recommend it but the second one was non functioning and I have returned it and received a full refund.The Amazon customer service team were excellent.

Lousy product. Switches-off with regularity necessitating battery removal/reinsertion to restart. Lousy battery life - quick to discharge, an age to charge. Routinely fails to synchronise. Of little use or ornament. One of those purchases that fuels 'buyer's remorse'. And I am very remorseful! What an ignominious end for the once well respected and highly regarded NOKIA stable whose thoroughbreds bolted a long time ago.

I bought this phone to replace a Nokia 3310 3G( 2018) which I`d found too small for comfortable use, with microscopic screen text (and no facility to enlarge font). The 6300 4G fits comfortably in the hand, with larger keys and a screen font which can be enlarged by one step. The new operating system is not intuitive but you soon familiarise yourself to it. My PAYG SIM only gives me 3G (although a contract SIM wil give 4G) but the phone was easily set up for Internet`tethering`to my media-pad . Call quality of the 6300 is good, and you can locate the earpiece speaker easily with your ear ! I`m not bothered by WhatsApp, Facebook or Maps on a 2.4" screen but this phone can do a version of all 3 - the maps feature quickly identifies where you are if you find yourself lost in a new area. Battery life seems long, though I`d be interested to compare the forthcoming Nokia 150 2020 when it arrives - which resembles the 6300 but is a more basic phone which might suit one equally as well if Facebook/WhatsApp are not desired.

I bought this phone to see what the new range of Nokia phones running KaiOS were like. This was the cheapest of the range, so if I didn’t like it, then it wasn’t too much of a problem. Immediately I was so surprised at how much this little phone can do! It has all the important apps; WhatsApp, YouTube, Google Maps, Facebook. And for the apps that it doesn’t have, there are cleverly converted apps in the KaiOS Store that will run on a Nokia with predictive text.This phone is absolutely great for someone who wants a cheap spare phone that can still do nearly everything that a smartphone can or if you want to buy a child a phone, but don’t want to spend hundreds of £s on a smartphone that will be broken in days. Plus, it’s a Nokia, so it’ll never break anyway!The camera is pretty bad, but at least it’s got one!

I bought this phone to help reduce my screentime, downgrading from an iPhone to something more basic. It certainly did the trick.This phone can do almost nothing beyond the basic functions it advertizes: text, call, email and WhatsApp. In that regard, it’s worked perfectly: sending a message is extremely difficult, especially when the keyboard keeps resetting from predictive text, so the urge to check for messages has almost vanished overnight. You can use Google Assistant to dictate them, but this produces an unpunctuated wall of text – so not much use for sending anything longer than a short sentence.Its Bluetooth connection drops after a few minutes. It lags horribly if you move too quickly between apps. The camera is dreadful. The battery isn’t what I’d expected given how little the phone actually does: it probably needs charging every two days.But as an alternative to doomscrolling, it is perfect. Staring at your phone has never been less attractive.

The software in these phones is terrible. Really really, terrible.Apps will crash constantly, virtually all of them, constantly; even when they are working, they are slower and less stable than a Reliant Robin doing donuts in a muddy pond.It is lightweight, and the screen is Ok for what it is, when it isn't crashing it does the job - and its light in the hand, my main requirement; but hanging up a call will provide plenty of annoyance (just ask whoever you are speaking to, to hang up, instead).The battery life should be great, and sometimes, it is - however, certain things which should switch off, do not appear to do so every time the user tries to switch them off (for eg Wifi/Hotspot sharing has a timer you can set but it is very unreliable, or if you use location and maps, the app doesn't always seem to shut down when told to and you can find your battery going from 99% to 10% in an hour while sitting in your pocket)It is not worth the price being charged - but if it was sold for £20, I'd still only give it 3 stars with current OS. It's got 2 stars because I am genuinely being generous; it is lightweight and functions as a phone, the weight in my hand is important to me - that's about as good as it gets, but there are much better options out there, for far less - I am very disappointed overall, after some months using it.These phones do not deserve the name, Nokia - the company making them should ditch the new operating system, Kai OS, and go back to the original black and white/yellow LCD and original OS, that always functioned and never ate your battery because of poor programming.DO NOT whatever you do, attempt to use the web browser unless you absolutely 100% need to - it will only drive you to rage, despair or arson; perhaps all 3 at the same time.... don't even get me started on Snake ... thankfully disability ensures I can't play it enough to get me properly annoyed.This phone is a great example of what happens when a company is sold off with no consideration for the time and dedication that was originally put into a great product & brand.i very much doubt software updates will arrive to make this phone better, I haven't even seen a security update yet - It seems unlikely that the makers of Kia OS have created what no internet software company has ever achieved, software that is unhackable, unbreakable and completely secure. Well it's already broken, so if for whatever reason you choose to buy this, don't go putting sensitive information into it.

It has good service! and Good wireless connection

Unreliable, keeps switching off