Samsung Tocco user reviews

Amisha Lauren Grant 2 July 2011

Comment: =)

Hannah Lees 3 June 2011

Good: Un-complicated

Bad: Battery Life

Comment: Of all the phones i have had, this has to be the best phone as its easy to use, lots of memory, and the touchscreen was not very sensitive which i liked. The only downside is that after time, you need to buy a new battery, i've had this phone for 4 years and have plucked the courage to upgrade!
I have dropped this phone, it has fallen out of my pocket, fallen in the toilet (lol) and still works perfectly!! Samsung do the best phones!!

Loma Rosario 14 August 2010

Good: usability

Bad: nothing

Comment: I like the phone, but there is one more phone i like very much. See the link

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catastrophe 8 May 2010

Good: The camera is 5mp and has autofocus. Very nice!

Bad: Two themes- dull, horrible browsing.

Comment: When I first saw this product on the net I bought it within a day or so. The phone was amazing to me at first but I soon saw how average it was, in my view. The camera is brilliant, but sometimes blurry and fuzzy. You can edit pictures which is very nice. One thing I don't like about it is that there is no size that fits the default picture on the home screen. Everything is zoomed in and me and my friends found it hard to take a pic without having a head or two cut off. Sizes are either too small or too big, but can be helpful once uploaded and blown up. The design is gorgeous and I love the shiny metal on the back although it has chipped a little over the past year. Screen is very responsive and texting is easy with big on screen buttons, no QWERTY keyboard on screen though. Browsing is O.K, if you're average. It's very slow though at times.

Overall I adore this phones design and camera. It only has game demo's which I ended up deleting! I would say it's pretty average for a touch screen but worth the buy if you're looking for an easy phone to use with a nice camera.

Netball71 12 May 2009

Good: Widget

Bad: Sometimes slow touchscreen

Comment: Well, i just went on Contract and I got the Samsung Tocco (F480). I really like this phone. The menu is very clear, music volume is quite variable, Youy can do alot with the settings and its quick and easy to use.
Good-
Memory
Touchscreen
Organisation
Music Player
It's user friendly
Sexy, Slim phone

Not so good-
Touch screen is sometimes a bit slow
Camera a bit blury.

Verdict... Very good phone, not the best but still very good.
Texting is easier for smaller fingers so its harder for Gentlemen

stevenfisher 5 May 2009

Good: The way it looks.

Bad: Usabillity is very poor.

Comment: The Tocco takes a bit of getting used to and the touch screen isn't very responsive. Texting can be very difficult if you have large fingers as well as navigating the web. Battery life is very poor as well. The pictures it took were ok but the video was poor and blurry when on the move.
All in all I would say this is one phone to avoid.

227duke 31 March 2009

Good: Looks

Bad: Most other things

Comment: A good looking phone, but I really didn't like it a bit. After being spoiled for the last 18 months with a Nokia N95, I allowed myself to be talked into a Tocco. Mistake. It looks good on paper, but doesn't trump the N95 in any area, and falls down on most. The camera, although nominally equal to the N95, is fussy and simply does not produce anywhere near the same quality of pictures. It also has the irritating habit of -----pausing----- for a second after you press the shutter button, by which time often as not the thing you are snapping has moved. Also, an N95 will return to the viewfinder immediately after you lightly touch the shutter button again after taking a pic - not so the Tocco, which requires much tapping of the screen.

The phone suffers from having complex and unclear menu paths, loads of sub-sub menus which are illogical at best. Texting is nowhere near Nokia standard... every time you text, you have to tell the phone to use predictive text. Use of the 'add word' feature is similarly tricky. The calendar is difficult to use if you have fingers any bigger than a child - I would always hit the wrong date. Once into your date, setting up a diary entry is extremely frustrating, as trying to scroll down the fields smoothly is nigh on impossible. When making an entry, the phone also insists on you entering a 'finish' time for a meeting as well as a start time, which requires more finger dragging. While doing said dragging, you frequently open fields which you don't want open........ Making an entry on an N95 - 15 seconds. On a Tocco - 2 minutes. No good. Also, the N95 calendar gives a 'preview' of any entries for a particular day when one scrolls over th day, without having to actually go into that day on the calendar - not so the Tocco. Very frustrating feature.

I wasn't able to turn off the ridiculous key stroke noises without switching off all the noises on the phone. The volume of the speaker was pathetic, both for listening to calls on loudspeaker and listening to music. The ear speaker is very quiet - I found that using the 'loud' speaker as a normal ear speaker jus about made things acceptable.

Touch screen, but why? It does it, but badly. An Iphone allows you to 'fast scroll' if you flick your contacts list, not so the Tocco.

Oh, and no SatNav.

All in all, a pup. Flashy, but unnecessarily so. Too much effort placed in daft little vibration-lets whenever you open a function, and in making the 'revolving' desktop effect. I sent it back. My N96 is being delivered later this week.

Ricepop 17 March 2009

Good: The look of the phone

Bad: The operating system

Comment: This is the worst phone I have ever used, there are too many menus (widgets, main menu and shortcuts) all leading to too many sub menus. almost every aplication takes you to the internet, I still havent managed to play a game without being connected to the web yet. It seem quite difficult to customize, it has seperate menus for ring tones, music etc. Why not just have sounds. The lack of a full keyboard is disapointing too. Overall its terrible, not at all what I expected.

Budski 7 December 2008

Good: Right size, quality/solid feel, very good video camera, looks great

Bad: Dismal web browser, poor photo's for 5mp, not finished is it?

Comment: My initial impression of the Tocco was wow! that's one good looking phone, so you pick it up and you're not disappointed by that either, it feels solid and reassuring in your hand with a fantastic vibe feedback letting you know you've made contact with the touch screen. I loved the widgets and the whole thing was just superb, like I said, initially. For the first month I sang it's praises but now I've lived with it for 4 months I'm not so smitten. The biggest crime committed here is the '5mp' camera, which, does do stunning video I'll admit, but it just doesn't deliver the stills. I have compared the image from this phone to a 3.2mp phone by taking two identical shots, and apart from the actual size of the image being bigger, it's no better, I was flicking between the two on my PC and had them both full screen, you wouldn't be able to tell which was which (as my wife proved), poor show. The browser sucks, big time, and seems like an afterthought, it almost feels like it wasn't finished. There are many things that irritate you after a while such as really poor scrolling on certain menus, just try and set up your pop3 and you'll see. A trivial sounding but infuriating flaw in the 'calls list' where your top entry in the list expands to cover the next two, unless you have a later software pack, where it pushes them down properly, but then you cant get at item three, a joke? I wish, why does it need two thirds of the screen for menu space on a call list? surely the list is the important thing, and before you say "use the rocker you fool" I thought of that and it skips past item three too!!! WTF? The widgets that I thought were great are limited to the few that are already there and some you can't remove (?) and why you can't create your own is beyond me. I know this is starting to become a rant, but scoring 9-10's for a phone that really reminds me of an ex-partner of mine, pretty and seems fun to start with, but is actually quite stupid and eventually got on my nerves. Can't wait to ditch it, but maybe one more quick stroke and another go with the video camera ;-)

Thanks for reading.

aj_brian 25 November 2008

Good: the looks/ the size/the camera/ music player and stylish touch screen

Bad: Nothing apart from the battery but with all the feature who could expectr better

Comment: At first I saw the price and thought wow this phones hot but expensive but after a couple month the price fell to my finacial level. Everyone told me it wont last its just a sport phone but trust it has been great for the past 4 moth no drop call no nothing this is the best the iphone has nothing over the Tocco