Nokia 9300i was introduced in 2005. The modern design of the Nokia 9300 is the first indicator of the sophisticated features that lie within. Sleek and compact, the device opens to reveal a full keyboard and wide 65,536-color screen. InfoSync reviews the Nokia 9300i and writes, “Applications such as the high-quality yet rather basic Messaging and PIM suites are among the less impacted, whilst the Office suite and in particular the Adobe Acrobat viewer tend to tug a little when processing larger documents. Incidentally, we still miss the spell checker and thesaurus that used to inhabit the Documents application on the 9210i of yesteryore.”

My-Symbian.com reviews the Nokia 9300i and writes, “Nokia 9300i has the same processor as the 9300/9500 - TI OMAP 1510 running at 150 MHz. Now that the device supports WiFi, I wish it was a bit faster to provide enough power for VoIP calls… The phone comes with the same amount of RAM and storage memory as the 9300. 9300i supports MMC cards up to 2 GB… Changes can also be found on the cover phone side. SMS editor now supports predictive text input (T9 dictionary). It allows typing messages on the phone keypad much faster and easier. The external phone now also offers better integration with the “inside” Telephone application. Users can also enjoy improved UI of the cover phone, including icons for different kinds of connections (e.g. separate indicators for GPRS and EDGE, WiFi, IP passthrough).”

All About Symbian reviews the Nokia 9300i and writes about office applications, “Here again we have a competent word processor, spreadsheet application and PowerPoint viewer that haven’t changed since the 9500 or 9300 implementations. The cynic in me notes that the basic STNC browser in the original Symbian OS communicator, the 9210, was replaced in the 9210i / 9290 with a Nokia’fied version of the Opera Web Browser. If, in similar vein, Nokia had made just one change in the firmware to the 9300i, I wish they had ditched the native Symbian office applications and gone with Documents To Go (yes DataViz again, but when the software works as well as theirs does…) for the office software. This would have gotten over the loss of formatting during round trip editing… if someone sends you a Word file with the correct formatting for you to edit, and you email the changes to the text back, you don’t want large chunks of the formatting lost. That’s what the built in office applications have a tendency to do, and it’s infuriating. Documents To Go remains an essential purchase for end-users on Series 80 who want to do more than edit existing text file, and this is probably the biggest disappointment in the 9300i. The office software is tremendously fully-featured, but without document integrity most of the power is wasted.”