The Nokia 6030 is yet another of Nokia's basic phones, primarily for those who just want a phone that works. Devoid of fancy features such as a camera, a music player, and Bluetooth, the Nokia 6030 is intended only for making phone calls.

Size: 104 x 44 x 18 mm and Weight: 90 gm

The Nokia 6030 weighs 3.17 ounces with the battery. To put things in perspective, the Nokia 6010 phone weighs 3.76 ounces and the Motorola RAZR v3 weighs 3.35 ounces. So it's lighter than a RAZR.

it is a very small and thin phone. It comes in black, (very smudge and scratch prone) the keys are transparent, with light that illuminates very nicely through them (also I like that after a few seconds the display and the keys slowly dim in sync with each-other). The screen is tiny and slightly washed out, but it does okay in direct sun light.

Type CSTN, 65K colors
Size 128 x 128 pixels

The Nokia 6030 uses a BL-5C battery which is rated at 850 mah and good for up to 3 hours of talk time. The battery, of course, is still better than the one on the Nokia N90 for some reason.

Those, who may be thinking of buying the new Finnish toy, may start feel undecided by the FM receiver present in the phone. I really don't know, whether Nokia would have suffered losses, if it had implemented a stereophonic radio. To activate the radio, you need to plug Nokia's HS-7 earphones, delivered together with the mobile. Surprisingly, they play pretty well for the cheap phone they have been attached to. Do not expect any audiophile parties, though. What we are offered here is just another pair of common plastic earphones. Anyway, even so, the bass components and the drum beats can be heard clearly, which is - as you all know - far from a common feature of mobiles' basic equipment.

Earphones HS-7 delivered together with the phone • slide clip • there is no radio without plugging the earphones

The phone allows you to save as much as 12 radio stations, including their titles. Automatic tuning is sure enough. The earphones can also be used as a handsfree set. At the point of "confluence" of their wires there is a tiny base with a microphone as well as a button for both accepting and denying a call. Moreover, the mains leading to the converters have different lengths. As a result, you can drop the wire of the right earphone around your neck, so that the earphones alone can lie on your breast, when not used

Nokia 6030 has 3 MB shared memory and there is no
Card Slot.

Network Frequency GSM 900 / 1800

In order to connect the mobile to a computer or to another device, you will have to use a data cable. Other options are not available. The main difficulty is that Nokia 6030 is not equipped with Bluetooth, nor has it infrared port. What's more, the delivery package does not contain a data cable, so you will have to buy it in addition.

When the 6030 model was first launched, there was a lot of speculating about whether the connector, which could be seen on the presented pictures, was of the mini-USB type. Well, I will have to disappoint you, for it is not. What we have here is an interface of Nokia's own, which the Finns called "Plug and Play". I do not understand, where the standard Pop-Port disappeared, since it was virtually identical as far as usage was concerned

The included java games are Block Breaker, Club Pinball, and Tetris. Block Breaker is a GameLoft games which means it's a top-notch game and damn good. Pinball is, well, pinball and generally not very impressive. Tetris would've been cool but it's a stupid demo version.

The Nokia 6030 comes with an impressive 500-contact address book, and each entry can store up to five numbers, an e-mail address, a Web address, a street address, and a note. You can add an image for each entry for caller ID, but since there's no camera, you'll have to use one of the included graphics as a replacement. You can organize your contacts by caller groups and assign a group with any of seven polyphonic ring tones, though you can download more MIDI and MP3 ring tones. The Nokia 6030 has a built-in speakerphone that you can turn on only after you make a call, plus there's instant messaging (AOL, Yahoo, and ICQ), text and multimedia messaging, a vibrate mode, automatic redial, and last-number redial. A WAP 2.0 browser that connects to Cingular's Media Net portal is also included, but Web access is predictably poky and close to unusable. Organizational tools include an alarm clock, a calendar, a to-do list, notes, a calculator, a stopwatch, and a countdown timer