Samsung S8300 Tocco Ultra User Reviews

Its a very appealing looking phone and its quite an easy phone to use on a general basis, but even with the lock on it rings people while in my pocket due to the touch screen. I have tried to turn down the sensitivity but with little joy, also im not very impressed with the picture gallery, its hard to keep the picture you want on the screen. I use my phone to ring and text on a daily basis and dont have a problem there but the internet is hard to use on it, my son has a blackberry curve and its so much simpler to use and i will consider changing the make of my phone when my contract is up

Much better than most reviews claim. In my opinion, at least. Sometimes the touch screen is a bit slow on the 'uptake' but the superb camera (8MP which is still a rare occurrence) makes up for it. That's of course if the camera in a phone is at all useful to you. The date display went nuts on me though (it shows a wrong day of the week despite the date itself being correct!!!). Still enjoy using it after 18 months. Would definitely recommend it to an average user who is not after the latest gadgets but likes reliability and clever features.

The joint function of a touch screen and keypad is in essence good as it means that users who prefer a keypad but the look of a touch screen have the best of both worlds. However sometimes the touch screen is slow to respond and fast texting is hindered because of this.

For texting, the keypad is by far the better function of this phone, and sometimes it is irritable when you are looking at photos and they begin to slide down the screen - making it difficult to hand the phone to anyone to show off your newly taken photos.

In saying that, the camera quality is good (not so good when zooming) but picture quality is excellent. I took some photos of scenery and had them blown up and framed - you would never be able to tell it was taken from a camera phone!

One thing to note is the software provided to upload photos and videos etc onto PC/Laptop runs quite slow - It is super easy to use and extremely user friendly. Only problem I have with it is that it can be slow at times.

Internet access is good, albeit a little slow at times, however considering it is not an iPhone or similar I was quite pleased with it.

Games are good however with some games although this phone has a touchscreen, there are not touch screen games you can play on it which is disappointing. Some of the games on the phone could benefit from using a touch screen keypad.

All in all the phone is good and smack bang in the middle of those who are sceptical of touch screens and don't want to give up a keypad.

It is difficult to combine the two and as a result there are some positive and negative impacts for this phone - but in general a good all rounder.

I liked the idea of the Tocco Ultra simply because there is a keypad but it is hidden. I was happy with the design but find the battery cover very hard to get off and the charger cover very flimsy.

The features on the Tocco never impressed me, it is now a very annoying phone and needs alot of patience. When receiving a message you have to use the touch screen to access it, half the time when pressing "open" the box just moves around!

Browsing through photos, once you open a file, if you turn the phone so the photo moves round it suddenly starts to scroll through all the photos just from feeling the movement, its very annoying and hard to stop the photos moving.

The internet is very hard to use, it would be handy if this phone come with a pen for the touch screen, you have to double click everything!

And a year later after owning the Tocco, it takes roughly 5 minutes for the phone to start charging, I put the charger in but it dosent start. It takes alot of moving the phone in different positions for it to charge, currently the phone has to be up on its side leaning on something for it to stay charging!

So overall a very annoying phone to use.

This phone is my first Samsung after having used Nokia's and Sony Ericsson's for years. I will admit that it takes a bit of getting used to, especially the text message functions, but now that I have I'm pretty happy with it.

The combination of touch screen and traditional keypad is a great halfway point for people like me who like our ipod touches but aren't quite ready for a fully touch screen phone, I like to be able to push the buttons without looking!

The maps and internet functions are good, I relied on the e-mail access for weeks when the broadband went down at work recently. The design is nice, its light, compact and the screen is clear.