Prime Notebook Computer Review

The Nokia 9300 is horizontal clamshell with Symbian as the operating system. It’s a large phone of the standard candy bar design. The built is very well. It’s feel sturdy but not too heavy. When the 9300 open, it reveals a keyboard with 58 keys, eight program launch buttons, four input buttons, a 9-way joystick mouse and a brilliant 640×200 pixel display. The 9300 dimensions is 5.2″ x 2″ x 0.83″ with 5.89 ounces of weight. It’s not small or huge. It’s menageable. The Interior Display of 9300 is so fantastic. The color is pure and vivid with five brightness levels. It’s not touch sensitive display but works very well outside, even in direct sunlight.

The 9300 is powered by Nokia’s own Series 80 OS, which is based on Symbian 7.0. While there might not be the volume of software titles available compared to the Palm OS, Handango does list 488 options for the 9300, across all categories. There are several other places to find applications as well. The 9300 also come with several applications, most notably a web browser, email and office document management. The Opera-based web browser is remarkable. The trick is in the high resolution widescreen and the input options. The 9300 display is wide which is more suitable for web use. The browser supports HTML 4.01 and JavaScript 1.3. The main way to navigate web pages is with the joystick which is works well but too sensitive when scrolling. The office section of the 9300 includes software for browsing office documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Files can be stored on the 9300 in internal RAM or on the memory card in native form. The 9300 email client supports a wide variety of clients including POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, SyncML and BlackBerry Connect. And still also can send SMS message and faxes. For audio/video needs the 9300 comes with an image viewer, voice recorder, music player and RealPlayer.

The 9300 is powered by a 150MHz ARM9 CPU which much lighter than something along the lines of Windows Mobile. Applications load quickly and overall the device is snappy. The 9300 comes with 80Mb of internal non-volatile memory that is usable, and an MMC slot to add more. For the wireless the Nokia 9300 uses a tri-band GSM radio with support for EDGE. It also includes Bluetooth and infrared. The EDGE network has fast download speeds when in the area offered it.

The 9300 keyboard is QWERTY with 58 keys and eight program launch buttons. There’s also two shift keys, a tall enter key and a wide space bar. The keys are quite large for a device like this. The keyboard is easy to use because there’s not much clutter. The keys are soft and smooth with little definition between keys, making it difficult to type without looking. As noted there are eight quick launch buttons for things like web, telephone, calendar, etc. These are nice for fast access to the most common functions; one of them is user programmable. There are also four buttons to the right of the screen that have different values depending on the application, such as open, close and the like.
As a phone, 9300 does a great job. The main display is 128×128 pixels.The speaker volume is good and clearly.
The 9300 also came with an earpiece and desktop cradle.
The 9300 battery is a 970mAh Li-Ion unit which is have 200 hours standby and 4.5 hours of talk. In moderate usage it about 2 days before charge.

The 9300 is a well-made smartphone. It’s not a one-handed use, with no vibrate option and the screen space is poor use at times. But 9300 have a great display and good keyboard. The build is well and it’s a nice interagation. It works well as a phone and does a pretty good job as a PDA. The software package is a little limiting and the web browser is strong. It’s a great device for mobile business users.