Mobile Phone Reviews : The Regulars

Mobile phones have become a part of daily life in the UK. It seems you can’t walk down the street without seeing someone talking on one or sending a text message. The latest models are seen as status symbols and fashion accessories rather than tools that enable communication. The speed at which new features become available on mobile phones is driving consumers to upgrade their phones more and more frequently. This leads to old mobile phones either being discarded or left to gather dust in forgotten drawers and boxes.

In other parts of the world the demand is simply for a phone that enables communication. So, as consumers in the UK give up their less feature rich mobiles for newer models, a market for second hand and reconditioned mobile phones that simply send and receive calls and texts has grown up in other parts of the world. The demand for these old mobile phones is being met by the various companies such as Mazuma and Envirophone that will give you cash for mobile phones, which they will then recondition for sale overseas, usually in the Middle East and Africa.

Mobile phone exchange services such as Mazooma and Envrophone make it easy to get some cash for your old mobiles and provide them to areas of the world that would not normally be able to afford new ones. This means that fewer discarded phones end up in landfill sites where the dangerous chemicals used in their manufacture, such as arsenic and beryllium, can harm the environment.

Given all the features that come with the latest mobile phones, it’s sometimes easy to forget what the devices are really supposed to be – and that’s mobile phones people can use for calling, texting, and sending pictures. We give full marks to Nokia then for remembering that some people just want the basics, which is what they’ve provided with the Nokia 6300.

The entire approach is back-to-basics, but done with style. The candy bar design is easy on the hand, and about as old school as anyone can imagine these days. Quite conventionally, the keys are below the screen, responsive and easy to use, while the display on the screen is sharp, and navigates quite intuitively (to be fair, there’s not a great deal to navigate). However, in a nod to today, users can customise the phone a little, adding both ringtones and wallpapers.

With just a two megapixel camera built in, and no flash, it’s definitely not a phone for camera enthusiasts, but in many ways that’s the point. This handset is for being in contact with people; anyone wanting all the modern extras will need something more upscale and expensive.

That simplicity is what has won over critics in mobile phone reviews, and made the Nokia 6300 a big seller. For all those who want to constantly upgrade, there are also many who just want a phone to be a phone, and keep their lives uncomplicated.  They want something good and reliable, and the Nokia 6300 fills that bill perfectly – and at a reasonable price.