14 DAY TRIAL // One of Nokia's latest products, the slim and stylish 6300, was unveiled at an event in Kolkata India, by Bollywood actor Rahul Bose.
The handset is less than 13.1mm thin, comes with a stainless steel frame that is both appealing as looks and adds strength, and was designed to represent an evolution of the modern monoblock design.
While it's design will be the main point of interest for most users, the mid-range phone also offers a convenient set of easy-to-use features like a 2 megapixel camera with 8x zoom, email capabilities, MP3 player, FM Radio, 7.8 MB internal memory that can be expanded to up to 2GB due to a MicroSD card slot.
It includes a 2 inch 16.7 million color screen with a 240 x 320 pixel (QVGA) resolution,which was described as being crisp and detailed, voice dialing, voice commands, voice recording, integrated hands-free speaker and several applications including the Opera Mini Browser. The talk time is estimated at 3.5 hours, while the phone will last for around 14 days on standby.
The phone was initially unveiled at the Annual Capital Market Place and has also recently been approved by the Federal Communications Commission. If you're living in India and would like to get yourself a Nokia 6300, now would be the perfect time to do so, because to get the sales rolling, Nokia has launched a limited edition of the phone, with the first 2,500 consumers across the country getting their names etched on the phone, along with a selection of stylized fonts and designs. The estimated retail price of the Nokia 6300 is 250 Euro before subsidies or taxes.