To the uninitiated, the Nokia 9300 Communicator looks like a
high-tech styling of the candy bar phone format, with a 128 x 128
pixel color display. Slip this silver communicator out of your
jacket and you'll look like you're in touch with the upper echelon
of business and technology. Ah, but they'll only realize the half
of it. This smartphone has a hidden second life.
Turn your 9300 sideways and flip it open along the lengthwise
hinges. Wait a second. This is no ordinary cell phone. There's a
computer in here. Indeed, the Nokia 9300 sports a full QWERTY
keyboard with nice big keys and a long, rectangular color main
display measuring 640 x 200 pixels. Wasn't so long ago that was
half the resolution of a laptop computer. This entire foldable
smartphone is hand size, 5.2 x 2 x 0.83 inches.
To be a truly mobile computer, you have to communicate. That's
where the Communicator gets its name. This device runs on
Cingular's GSM network with three bands for voice and data access
via the EDGE protocol. EDGE provides up to 144 Kbps, near broadband
and plenty for Internet access on this diminutive device. The
built-in web browser supports both WAP 2.0 and full HTML 4.0 with
Flash, so you can view web pages that are not optimized for mobile
browsing, as well as those that are.
Email is also fully featured, with support for POP3, IMAP4,
SMTP, SSL and Push Email OMA. You have the ability to view, edit
and send Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. It's
enough to make you smile, even SMIL. You use SMIL Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language for sending and receiving
interactive audiovisual presentation slideshows. Standard SMS text
messaging is also supported, of course, as is instant
messaging.
An unusual feature, but one a mobile professional may well find
handy is the ability to send and receive faxes directly from the
phone.
Other niceties include an adjustable display brightness control,
8 application shortcut keys, an infrared port, voice driven menus,
streaming multimedia support using RealPlayer and MPEG4 formats, an
MP3 player that supports Real Audio, MP3 and AAC music formats, and
a two-handed gaming experience for those "off duty" times.
The Nokia 9300 is also a cutting edge cell phone in its own
right. As much as you might like to show it off, there are times
when it's best to have your hands free. For those times, you can
switch on the built-in speakerphone or clip a wireless Bluetooth
headset on your ear. You also have hands-free dialing
available.
The computer on this smartphone runs the Symbian 7.0 series 80
operating system. Built-in memory is a generous 80 Mb, and is
expandable using MMC format cards.
You might think that all this voice and data processing power
would suck a mobile battery dry in a matter of minutes. Oh, but not
so on this advanced design. Talk time is up to 420 minutes, which
is 7 full hours. Standby time is up to 192 hours or 8 days away
from the charger.
Is this the mobile communication device you've been looking for?
Learn more about ordering your corporate
Nokia 9300 with Cingular Wireless service today. Or if you
would prefer another model wireless device or prefer another
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