Nokia 6303 4g
Diante Scharsch
The Nokia 6303 classic is a mobile telephone handset produced by Finnish manufacturer Nokia. The Nokia 6303 classic was announced in December 2008, it has been in production since May 2009. It is the successor to the Nokia 6300 (even though PhoneArena claims the Nokia 6700 classic was the successor[1]).
The phone supports MicroSD cards up to 32 GB, meaning that the phone can be used practically as an MP3 player. Using the supplied and freely available Nokia PC Suite, one has the option of converting MP3s to e-AAC for more compression. The 3.5 mm headphone jack means that many standard commercial headsets will fit the phone. Like most other recent Nokia phones, the 6303 classic replaced their old Pop-Port connector for a standard micro-USB connector.
The phone allows the user to view the video clips in full-screen landscape mode and set the fast-forward/rewind interval from a few seconds to minutes. Improved audio quality for music playback was also noted for this firmware version, thus making the Nokia 6303 classic a music phone similar to its counterparts, the Nokia XpressMusic. In addition, video clips can replace ringtones so that an actual motion picture is shown while there is an incoming call.
Nokia announced the "i" version of the 6303 classic phone in February 2010 which was released in March that year. The 3.2-megapixel camera lacked autofocus and video recording was now done at 240320 at 8 frames per second. It has been refreshed with a new UI and new graphics. The 6303i classic supports up to 8 GB (16 GB according to some sources) MicroSD cards, supplied with 2 GB instead of 1 GB. The internal memory has also been raised to 55 MB. The battery life has been enhanced to 515 hours of standby and 8 hours talk time. It now comes with 7 inbuilt games instead of four (the 6303 had Bounce Tales, Brain Champ, City Bloxx and Sudoku where the 6303i has those 4 games, plus the additional games which are Block'd, High Roller casino and Rally Stars). The 6303i classic has faced negative reviews due to the camera downgrade. These models are not available in 2019 on the Nokia website but can be bought from online shops.
Although the 6303 classic has smartphone features, it is more user-friendly and straightforward. It is aimed for users who want a reliable and stylish phone, used mostly for calling and texting.[2][3]
While Nokia's recent 6700 Classic represents an alternative and more obvious upgrade path from the workhorse 6300 by introducing such delights as HSDPA 3G connectivity and a 5-megapixel camera, the 6303 is a more functional revision to the 6300 template.
There's no GPS, Wi-Fi or smartphone cleverness, but it does cover the usual music and video player bases, with a 3.5mm standard headphone socket a welcome addition. The Nokia 3603 also sports a 3.2-megapixel autofocus-equipped camera, plus a range of applications such as Nokia Maps. The latter includes a 1GB MicroSD card with maps of the UK and Ireland supplied.
For a very long time, I've been using a Nokia 6303 classic phone. I was very satisfied with that phone. the built-in camera made good photos, I could use the music player to listen to music through headphones, and the user interface was usable.You may recall that back in 2016, I even wrote a perl script to decode the contact lists after that phone backs it up into a zip file (with .NBF extension) containing indivdual files for each contact. That script exports phonebook entries into a semicolon-separated file with lines like this:BME kzponti;+3614631111[download]That's a simple entry. Some lines list additional data, such as multiple phone numbers and possibly text notes in the same entry separated by a semicolon. I never figured out how to make a backup file that the phone could import though. In fact I once had to restore all the backups by hand.In 2017-11, I bought a Nokia 216 as a spare phone, because I figured that if I lose my phone or it becomes non-functional, I'd like to have a spare phone at hand immediately. That one only has a much worse camera, but that didn't matter anymore, because I had a pretty good compact camera now. I charged the phone and verified that it worked, then put it in a drawer.In (2018-08) 2018-06, I lost the Nokia 6303. I cleaned it with too much water, which in itself wouldn't have been a problem, but I then put the battery back in the phone before it dried properly. The phone turned on, but went off after a few seconds, and I couldn't revive it after drying. I'd like to add that this was the second time the phone got wet, it has survived falling into the toilet once before.So I mourned for the old phone, but was happy that I had the foresight to have bought a replacement earlier. For a few days.I actually also had the foresight to have most of the important phone numbers copied to the SIM card, so I could transfer those phone numbers to the new phone by copying from that, and entered a few more important ones from the dump of the backup, so I had like fifty important phone numbers in the phone. You may ask why I don't just transfer all phone numbers through SIM cards then, since SIM cards are pretty cheap, and I have several old spare ones in my drawer. The problem is that the contact list stored on SIM cards has some big limitations: names can't be longer than about 15 bytes (some characters take more than one byte, I don't know the exact rule), the card can only store 250 contacts (I already had more than that back then), and the card can't store additional information such as notes. Anyway, I at least got a phone that I could use for a temporary basis, and transfering the whole contact list was something that could wait a few days. But since I actually tried to use the phone for other tasks, and it turned out to be a disaster. It only took a few days to find out how terrible the user interface of the Nokia 216 was. How I raged! The way button presses are assigned are bad everywhere, but especially for the main screen and locked state are terrible. Not only do I have to press much more buttons to do the same thing than on the 6303, but it's also close to impossible to use the phone without looking at it all the time. I specifically chose a phone with a keypad that isn't completely flat, so that I can type messages blindly. Finding that I have to constantly look at the display for much more operations than in the 6303 was bad. The phone doesn't know how to assign separate ringtones for different people. It insists that I can only use one ringtone for everyone. On the 6303, I used four different ringtones, with different family members assigned to three different ones, and everyone else on a fourth ringtone by default.The messages menu is terrible. You can accidentally get messages you are writing into a state where they're still in the phone, but all you can do with it is retry sending to an invalid phone number or delete, you can't view or edit the message, you have to retype it.The music player is practically unusuable, because it can't play an album with the tracks in order, even in albums that I have encoded myself where all the music files have proper meta-information like album name and track number in it, and the filenames are consistent and differ only in a track number that I even zero-padded to two digits. Apparently the phone doesn't even make an effort to sort the tracks, it just plays them in the order they appear in the directory entry or something. The volume control of the 6303 was bad if you tried to use it through headphones, in that you could listen to music through the headphones loud or very loud, but quietly, but the volume control of the 216 is even worse. It doesn't matter much for music, which I can't listen to anyway, but this also makes sure that I can't listen to radio and can't even conveniently make a phone call through the headphones in quiet environment without having to listen to a too loud voice.The calendar is limited to 25 entries, and each entry can only have 39 characters of text to it. How am I supposed to write the location of a meeting in 39 characters? Use the notes list then, which in the 6303 I used to store shopping lists and other notes like that? You can, for the location and directions of the next meeting, but not for a shopping list, because each note can only be 100 character long. By the way, the contact list also doesn't take notes, you can only enter a name and one phone number to each entry. The name can be 30 character long in theory, but in practice you can use much less than that, because you can only see one line of the name when browsing the phonebook, and you can't scroll the names without trying to edit them. It's like they don't know how to use dynamic allocation for the flash memory, only they certainly do, because the phone still has a camera and can store photos of various sizes.The phone also doesn't say "Nokia 216" anywhere, not in the sticker under the battery, nor in the interface. I think the phone manufacturers are so ashamed of this phone line that they tried to make sure people don't write bad reviews by releasing a whole line of phones that look confusingly similar to each other, and not writing the type on any of them.There are only three good things I can say about the Nokia 216: it generally reacts quickly enough to keypresses, it accepts two SIM cards, and it's possible to import a contact list prepared on a computer.Here's how I imported the contact list. After finding out the limitations of the phone, First, I edited the semicolon-separated backup file to shorten the names and otherwise clean up the list. While I was there, I fixed all the names to have the correct letters, because some of the entries actually had names inherited from one of the two even older phones, which didn't have a full character set, so they had characters like "" instead of "" and "" instead of "ő" I never bothered to fix that on the 6303, even though that one already supported all letters of Hungarian, and I entered all the new names with the correct characters. Then I used a messy perl script to verify that the list of contacts looks fine, and convert them to the format that the 216 accepts, which I could reverse engineer from an exported contact list in a few tries. Here's the code, with a few details omitted.#!perluse strict; use warnings;use re "/u";open my$I, "", $ARGV[1] or die qq(open out: $!);binmode STDERR, ":encoding(cp852)" or die;my$counter = 0;while(my$l = ) { chomp $l; $l = tr/[\x00-\x1f\x7f-\x90]// and die qq(error: control characte+rs); my($n, @r) = split /;/, $l; 4
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