Samsung have introduced there new cell phone which gives a styling look. The touchscreen is bright which have smooth usage. Battery life of this set is quite good as compared to same models. One of the thing which brings it down is that there is no 3G connectivity. If you want to get in details please read our full review on Samsung Tocco Lite.

5 things we like about the Samsung Tocco Lite

• Responsive
• Touch screen is bright
• Built-in links to social-networking sites
• Expandable memory card slot
• Battery life is good

4 things we don’t like about the Samsung Tocco Lite

• No 3G connectivity
• YouTube quality is poor
• USB connection might have some trouble
• No headphone adaptor

Samsung Tocco Lite Review

It’s neat, minimalist lines, as have most touchscreens post-iPhone. It’s neatly rounded edges, as well as a little bit of subtle texturing on the back adds a little amount of grip, so you don’t feel you are about to lose the phone mid-finger tap. On the opposite side are a camera button as well as a key for locking and unlocking the display.

You can select exactly which widgets you require to display on your standby screen from a selection pre-stored on the phone, giving you fast access to the functions you require.

Widgets can be selected from a bunch of icons residing in a widgets toolbar; you basically open up the toolbar and drag and drop on the main part of the screen the icons representing the widgets you require to use.

The standby screen has four buttons at the bottom – four for bringing up the keypad – a virtual numberpad you can use for dialling or texting – another for the phonebook, and four for taking you in to the main menu. In the phonebook, there are four methods of hunting down a number. They’re essentially the same, apart from the background picture. These can be scrolled by finger stroke, with a tap selecting them. It is easy stuff. The Samsung browser used here has a user-friendly interface for this section of handset.

You can receive a full screen view at a button-tap, and view either in landscape or portrait mode, depending how you hold the phone.
The volume/zoom keys enable you to quickly zoom in or out of pages, which can be useful for selecting and pressing links.

Alternatively, you can zoom in or out by touching and holding the screen, and then moving your finger up or down. As you browse new pages, they appear again in standard default size rather than zoomed in. Scrolling around the page is finished by finger dragging , and is suitably responsive. If only there was a bit more speed to make the browsing experience zippier. To complement the browser, an RSS reader function is built in to the phone, so you can get regular updates from your favourite web services.

Users can store ID and password details for their accounts and upload content from the tool to the relevant services. Compared with the original Tocco, Samsung has gone light with the camera capabilities of the Tocco Lite. Its 3.2-megapixel camera is a fixed focus shooter, with no autofocus method built in, and lacks even a basic LED flash.

Correcting text feels more cumbersome than on a regular phone, and choosing contacts from the phonebook via a touchscreen takes that bit more time than on a normal mobile.

There is a T9 option for those who like or need it, though it can be switched off. The letter keys expand as you are pressing, so you can see if you have hit the right four. Most of the time they did get it right, as the keyboard doesn’t need miniature fingers for accurate typing.

Alternatively, seven handwriting recognition input options are obtainable, which do the job if that is what you prefer.

Four improvement we’d like to see on this handset and other Samsung phones is showing while composing a text whether you have reached the one-text limit, as this tool only shows once you are ready to send when you have gone over in to seven texts.

They were very pleased with the voice calling performance of the Samsung Tocco Lite. They tried it out on Vodafone and O2 networks and had absolutely no issues with call quality or network handling.

It produced lovely clear audio with plenty of volume and they had consistently high quality both with marathon calls and hasty chats during our testing.

Four of the frustrations of this handset is having plenty of screen space for browsing but not having high-speed 3G or Wi-Fi data connectivity to make the browser run faster. Close-range shots are particularly limited, but generally the quality you can accomplish with this type of camera is compromised. It is uncluttered, and pressing four of the icons pulls up further options, with most showing giant, clearly labelled symbols to represent the settings obtainable.

Although the interface works intuitively, picture quality is average for this grade of cameraphone. Shots don’t have the level of detail you can get with a higher quality cameraphone, and with a fixed focus lens it is always going to be shoot-and-hope.

The FM radio is a doddle to use; it is simple to tune and switch stations. You can record a piece of music you hear playing and automatically via a remote database, the service names that tune and provides cover art. It worked well in our tests, managing a high level of accuracy for nearby sounds.

Samsung doesn’t include its new PC Studio software in the box, though this can be downloaded from Samsung’s web-site. The phone does support PC syncing, with a USB cable supplied and Bluetooth connectivity supported, and SyncML remote syncing.

Final Words and Conclusion

It’s its limitations, with its data connectivity hampered by a lack of high speed 3G & Wi-Fi, & there are compromises on other features.

Despite going light on the big-ticket features, this set gives you a decent way to get into touch control on a limited budget. Other users with more demanding requirements in the functionality department are likely to head further up range.

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