User Interface
The KG300 has a fairly commonly styled main menu with icons. The submenus are simpler, being a flat list of items. All items have numbers. Nokia users won’t easily get around the menu, but it’s not as bad as some Sagems we had used a while ago. When it comes to deleting messages, for a while I thought I couldn't, till I realized that I needed to open a message and then it gives me options to delete one or all. When you’re in the phonebook, a little girl’s voice will read out the number for you. This is probably useful for the visually impaired, but how about reading out the name when the phone rings? The phone doesn’t do that! It does offer video caller ID, so you can see a video of the person who’s calling or any other video, when you get a call.
The interface doesn't have any themes, nor can any be downloaded. There’s a sound for almost everything the phone does. The default alert sound in case of a Yes/No prompt is highly irritating – it sounds like an old rickshaw horn being banged upon. You should turn this off, if you can figure out how to do it.
The interface is not terrific fast most of the time. There isn’t too much lag when you’re typing out an SMS, which is a good thing, but there are certain quirks, such as not being able to hold down a key for one second to directly input the digit.
The extra functions like World clock and currency converter are easy to use tools for you frequent travelers. Even the Calculator is user friendly.
Keypad
The keypad is rather small so all you guys with large thumbs will need to be careful as you could end up hitting 2 keys at once. There’s a 4-way navigation pad present, but, in my opinion, a 5-way navigation pad would have been better. It also has dedicated keys for the music player, volume and for the camera, but the camera key has to be depressed for more than one second, which isn’t good when you need to take shots in a hurry. That key also becomes the shutter key in camera mode.



