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The Nokia 6303 is a phone designed well and perfect for people who just need to call and text the majority of the time. In the hand it feels sublime and seems to fit every finger and thumb perfectly. It feels light, but has a weighty quality mainly thanks to the stainless steel casing, and just looks and feels good from every angle.

The expectations of this battery are high given it is one of the main features listed by Nokia and despite its relative paucity in capacity, it truly delivers. After 3 days and 3.5 hours of phone calls in an out, the battery meter is still at half way. Seriously impressive. The screen is a surprise. Nokia has managed to keep a similar size to the Nokia 6300, but move the keys down to create a larger screen. The brightness and clarity in bright sunshine makes for a practical viewer that is useable in all conditions.

The larger screen should make for smaller buttons, but these work really well and the phone does feel balanced. It looks as though it would be top heavy, but when texting everything feels right. The navigation key is as good as could be hoped for and the call start/end keys and menu keys could be better- they are joined to produce two functions per key which is not easy at first, but I can forgive because the rest of the keys work so well.

Call quality is blindingly good when used next to the ear. The volume is very loud when set up high, but I noticed little distortion even at high levels. The speakerphone is clear, but could be a little louder. It is obviously difficult to produce a ‘big’ sound from a small phone, but I have heard better on the speakerphone side in similar sized phones.Signal quality is also very good for standard voice and data. There was a full connection everywhere I went, but without 3G on board there is little that should go wrong on any of the UK networks.

Overall, the design is near perfect with good buttons, a large screen and a subtlety of form which looks right in any place and any situation. The battery lasts forever, the screen is clear in all conditions, the voice quality is as good as any other phone and it can be had for under £140.

This is part of a review written by Shaun McGill for his blog, PDA247. To read the rest of the review and for more great posts from Shaun, please visit the blog PDA247.co.uk