Nokia’s latest business “smart-phone”, the 9300 features web, email, PDF reader, an organiser and a few other nifty features. ITM’s Bracko takes it for a test drive.LookClearly this phone is designed for functionality. The front cover features a rather small screen by today’s standards, but as I soon realised the outside of the phone is intended to be seldom used. Physically, the size of the phone is as large and heavy as a 5110, so it’s not quite the fashion accessary that Nokia has built a reputation on. The fold out screen is slick, supporting apparently 65,000 colours with a nice resolution, the internal screen is a breeze to read. FeaturesObviously the main feature is the foldout keypad which enables you to navigate through all the phones functions, including settings and profiles, which cannot be done through the normal front screen, make and modify contacts which can be up or downloaded into outlook, an internet browser, PDF reader, games, and tonnes of other content. Firstly the navigation of the fold out screen was either through arrow keys or a push mouse, similar to those found on laptops. The latter begin the more effective during most operations. First item on my check list was to download my entire contacts list to the phone, here I found my first downfall on the phone. It took no less than 7 individually installed drivers to get the phone to cease finding new drivers to install, modems, bluetooth, cables, the list grew with my frustration, I would have thought Nokia would be able to do this with the onboard software. When installation was completed, connecting was the next small problem, but soon solved. After spending much longer to get my PDA functioning in full potential with my computer I knew there’d be problems, so I was pretty happy to find the Nokia took under ½ an hour to complete. The phone splits the sim contacts from the outlook contacts which is also an advantage as I have over 200 contacts on each list. The messaging program is a little cumbersome to navigate as it’s so heavily weighted into multimedia messaging, it takes a little too long for a SMS whore like myself to get a message up and running to my friends. However, multi messaging is fantastic, as is the multimedia areas of the phone short message service, adding images is far easier than my current, Nokia 7200.The included game is none other than what every businessman aspires to, golf. The irony was too sweet not to note. To add to this, the pdf viewer also allows booked to be downloaded to the unit, the good people at Nokia decided a demo copy of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” as it was a necessary inclusion to the phones users. By now I was beginning to understand who Nokia intends to buy this phone. The internet browser is a neat little feature found on the unit, connection speed was nothing fantastic, but more than acceptable for the quick UBD reference, or white-pages lookup. Surfing ITM however, put some strain on the unit, but it was more than possible. The SD card is a feature that I fount more than useful, the phone was able to store a mass of emails from work and home, and even allowed me to proof read my major university assignment on the way to work. You also can hook the phone directly up to a projector to give the all important board room presentation, but unfortunately, I didn’t have a projector on hand to test. One exclusion I did like was no camera. I personally find phone cameras to be the most useless invention of the last 5 years, it’s a pity that most phones companies now believe all users require one. End WordAll in all a very nice phone, but for (what I think) is a small market. My initial opinion was ‘why didn’t Nokia just build a PDA and stop messing about?’ But I now take that back as this phone has several advantages over a PDA. Size, it’s lighter and smaller It fits better in your pocket- It boasts a keypad instead of a touch screenAt first I didn’t really like the phone, but over time I got used to it, and the size was of little issue after a few days. It fit in my pocket, something that you still can’t do with most PDAs. Overall I did like the unit, but it’s large phone that most females won’t like or consider when buying a unit. It’s stripped down features were surprising, no camera, mp3 player or radio but the business offerings were defiantly a bonus for someone in my position that uses outlook extensively. It’s a great phone for any salesperson, or anyone that uses contact lists, likes to send emails or does work on the train.