Nokia 6300 4G | Unlocked | Dual SIM | WiFi Hotspot | Social Apps | Google Maps and Assistant | Light Charcoal

I like this phone! It works perfectly with Red Pocket Mobile. My "acceptable" condition phone arrived with no cracks or scratches anywhere. Like most feature or "dumb" phones, the Nokia 6300 4G is affordable, better suited for young children due to the lack of available social media apps, also good for those who want to detox from smartphone use due to the lack of financial, social media and Android or iOS only apps. From it's KaiOS Store app, you can also download and use the 'KaiMFA' app, a perfectly functional and secure Authenticator app on the Nokia 6300 4G with your 2nd factor authentication secrets and/or authenticator QR codes for free.The Nokia 6300 4G has good email capability, easiest with Gmail accounts because Gmail accounts do not need a 3rd party app secure key like Outlook, Yahoo, ATT.net or currently.com emails accounts do for this phone. To setup email access for Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, Att.net or Currently.com accounts on it, you need to choose the "Advanced Setup" option for "IMAP" to be used instead of the default "POP" for full email access capabilities along with an app specific password active on your email account.The only cons are that the Nokia 6300 4G should have been also WPA3 Wi-Fi capable being made after the certified Wi-Fi device requirements for those made after 2020; Nokia should have added voice to text for help with texting and typing for all their feature phones including this one; has several mobile game apps which are bloatware that cannot be uninstalled.

UpdateThe phone failed this week to receive or send email to Cornell email serviceThe IT department informed me that MS upgraded its security to OAuth 2.0 authorizationThe Nokia 6300 email has an old security protocol that is increasingly no longer acceptedMessages to Nokia to upgrade its OS, via emails [email protected] no responseIn addition to not being to able to display messages with higher resolution pictures, this phone can not send the videos it takes. Trying to send, by email, a 6.4MB video, generates ERROR:Attachment is too large to send with this messageTo mail the video, I had to transfer it from the Phone to my computer, and mail it from there.A phone should be able to email videos up to the email limit . On my email provider 10 MBThis phone will take 640x480 videos, 6.4 MB, but will send error message "Attachment too large too large to be send with this message" when you try to email it to a friend.6.4 MB is NOT a large attachment. It mailed fine when I transferred it to my computer.Surprising that a phone with a 4 GB internal memory can not email a 6.4 MB attachmentBuild a leather case with a magnetic catch for my new Nokia :-)* Very good voice quality* Very good battery live for what it offers* Very easy to set up email with your email provider* Confusing instructions "Avoid touching the antenna area while the antenna is in use. Contact with antennas affects the communication quality and may reduce battery life due to higher power level during operation." ..but the Instruction manual has not indication WHERE the antenna is. The OS , too, is not intuitive* Annoying for texting, if you like to use predictive mode. Every time you have to use the # key to insert, e.g. @, it falls out of it.* Can NOT handle message from my daughter that includes pictures of my grandchildren taken with her smart phone. Too high resolution for the phone to handle it. Will tell you to "download" than sends error message* Google Maps includes "your location" but this a) takes around 3+ minutes, and b) then shows me seven miles off from where I am* Camera is 0.3 MP , that's ok for me, but white balance is good only for outdoor shots* Games can NOT be removed. Have zero interest in playing those, but they can not be unloaded* Nowhere CLOSE to the build quality of my previous Nokia..Overall, more than needed for people who only want to talk, text, and read email but not enough for people wishing to use Google Maps and Directions.

Nokia missed the ability to hit a home-run with this phone. The 4G support on multiple bands, available memory and reasonable processor means that this phone has the ability to support a lot of features. However, the KaiOS operating system is buggy, poorly supported, and clumsy. I've tried contacting Nokia and Kaitech directly about issues that I've had and the customer support is almost non-existent.The phone features the ability to sync calendars and e-mail with built in google support. ActiveSync is also a featured protocol but doesn't appear to be supported. According to Nokia KaiOS doesn't support it at all, but the option is available in the phone, so that's confusing. Trying to sync with my Office365 account, with the correct settings and credentials, the phone returns an "incorrect username or password" error. I have confirmed with my company's IT department that the settings are correct and features enabled-it's an OS issue. Google sync with Gmail seems flawless and reasonable quick. Syncing with Google Calendar is a miserable fail. After multiple attempts to sync my calendar with the status bar showing that a sync was occurring, but nothing ever happened, I finally resorted to deleting my calendar and manually entering events one-by-one. This seemed to correct the problem, but I have to wonder at what point will the sync decide to stop working again.Alarms do not activate on time. They are consistently 6 hours off from the set time. Nokia's response was that I was either setting them up wrong, or I needed to reset the phone to factory settings and try again. A solution that works most of the time is to set the phone to not automatically sync the date and time. Setting the time zone manually fixes the problem. Usually. If an alarm goes off at the wrong time I can delete it and re-add it and it will usually work correctly. Not knowing if an alarm is going to go off at the correct time is a big issue for anyone who relies on the alarms.The screen is difficult to view in direct sunlight unless the brightness is turned all the way up. Which you then need to reduce when you're indoors unless you want to go blind. Having a TFT display would improve that, and improve battery life. Speaking of which, battery life really isn't that great. If you want a phone that will last a week or so without charging, look somewhere else. I find myself charging this phone every night with very little usage.Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi calling are great. The hand-off from Wi-Fi calling to cellular can be a bit rough at time and has resulted in a few dropped calls, but I've found that as long as I have good LTE service there isn't a problem.You can only reassign one button. The left button will always be for notices and the right one will always be for camera, unless I've been unable to find a setting to change that anyway.The KaiOs store is a joke. There are a few useful apps, but far and away the majority of them are ad-filled games that are just reskins of other games in the marketplace.The phone is larger than you would think a feature phone would be. If you're looking for a small pocket phone you might want to look elsewhere. It's not nearly as large as a smartphone, but it's still tall.Google Assistant works well, which is good since it's about the only efficient want to use texting or email. Predictive text works better than some other feature phones, but it's really nothing to brag about. You can quickly type out messages if you're aware of the quirks, but the biggest complaint I have is that you cannot set it as the default input method. Even though you have it turned on in the settings, you still need to press the # key four times in order to switch to predictive input. It's more annoying than you'd think something like that should be.If Nokia would ditch KaiOs, revamp their Series30 or Series40 operating systems and go back to their roots, they would be a lot more competitive in the feature phone market. Instead of trying to rebrand nostalgic devices, either re-issue the legacy device with 4G and WiFi support, or build something better from the ground up. There are plenty of "dumb phones" on the market, but to have a candybar style phone that supports wifi calling, Office integration, a useable app store, and still be a reasonable size seems a bit of a unicorn. If there's anyone familiar with a Nokia 301, that would be just about the perfect phone to add newer features to and re-release.