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User reviews10
edisonlondon1980 12 March 2011
Good: First-rate build and still looks good
Bad: Nothing
Comment: It's getting ona bit now, and I'm jsut int eh process of changing it after 18 months' use, but this phone has been a gem. Totally robust, despite being dropped repeatedly, and very resistant to crashing.
Most impressed and well worth getting on a PAYG basis or similar.
Amy Anderson 22 January 2011
Good: Camera, texting, screen.
Bad: Can't select the text to edit in a text. having to push the lock button on side of phone to unlock.
Comment: It's a decent phone, not worth £300 though.
AshW20 4 November 2010
Good: Touchscreen & keypad, responsiveness. camera! looks and style
Bad: shame it hasnt got apps and the plastic casing!
Comment: To be fair this isnt a BAD phone but for £350 you expect it to be a bit sturdier with it being plastic and so slimply built it breaks EASILY. The amount of battery covers ive had to buy can only be estimated its that many and between £5-10 a piece they arent cheap.
HOWEVER camera texting calling internet is good, not great but good. The camera is very clear its nice and easy to use my mum could use this thing! All in all i guess you cant complain too much about it but its just not quite what you expect for the money its just lacking something .. maybe im hard to please
butterfly56 11 September 2010
Good: Beautiful phone.nice touch screen plus the keypad along with 8megapixel camera and gps.
Bad: Texting with predictive text it sometimes uses the wrong word so then I have to delete and change input
Comment: I have only had this phone for a few weeks so I am still getting used to a touch screen phone. I do love it and I am still learning how to use all the features. It has accidentally logged me on to the internet when I didnt want to which has incurred a 30p charge a couple of times. Hopefully this wont happen when I am more used to it. I would reccomend this phone. The battery does seem to need charging more than my old phone but perhaps because it has more features and I use it more.
Gavin Dunn 18 August 2010
Good: Simply a great phone with both touch screen and numeric slide-down keypad
Bad: Has no Wi-Fi.
Comment: This is a fantastic handset by Samsung. The Tocco Ultra (S8300) has everything in one neat and small package. The AMOLED 2.8 touchscreen is incredibly clear so viewing photos or watching videos/movies is brilliant and in near HD. The handset has HSPDA & 3G+ for highspeed internet usage, but lacks wi-fi. It also has AGPS for google maps and maybe some sat-nav software. The 8 megapixel camera also has plenty of features and has a LED flash.
This phone has loads of features and is a real serious top peice of kit.
Richard Giustiniani 29 July 2010
Good: the camera being 8.0 megapixels is great
Bad: everything else!
Comment: It opens the internet by itself, it opens other applications by itself.
you cant go back in a txt with out several attempts on the touch screen, which has to be by the way the worst touch screen in the universe!
it has now started switching itself off which is highly annoying.
U have to press a button on the side of the phone to lock it which takes several attempts & even when its locked it manages to open applications whilst in your pocket.
when i hold it to my ear, the touch screen decides that it will be extra sensitive when my ear touches the phone & goes on to mute which is just great when your making an important phone call in which you have been in a queue for 45 minutes... fun times.
Cant wait til my contract runs out at the end of the year & I can send this piece of shit to mazuma!
This is my 4th samsung, they have always been reliable up until now.
will be buying a different make of phone from now on!
bigmikey34 25 December 2009
Good: Gorgeous screen, great camera, fun to use, flexibility of keypad, good battery
Bad: screen will occasionaly lag for a moment
Comment: By far the best phone i've ever had, the AMOLED screen is simply gorgeous and the camera is amazing for a phone, especially considering how slim this device is.
The touch screen is big enough for its use yet subtle enough not to get in the way.
The slide-out keypad made no sense to me at first but after a few days it all made sense, at times a touchscreen keypad can become awkward.
Dan Searle 22 August 2009
Good: The excellent 8MP camera and the touch-screen fidelity
Bad: Nonsense changes to the basic texting function
Comment: Yes, the Samsung Tocco Ultra S8300 is a fantastic piece of technology, great 8mp camera, great screen graphics and fidelity, easy to use touch-screen, lots of snazzy subtle enhancements in the way the applications are loaded and managed, all-in-all a really solid and sexy phone that no doubt cost a fortune for Samsung to develop.
So why, as a pre-existing user of a Samsung phone, do I want to smash it with a sledgehammer?
Because Samsung have made some senseless changes to some of the tried and tested basic functionality of the phone. Changes that buy you NOTHING but a whole load of heartache for existing Samsung users, changes that wholly obliterate the positive feeling you had with all its sexiness and snazziness. The list is long, but these are the lowlights;
• No easy way to control the cursor in a text message, the large button at the front of the phone that you think would move the cursor just cancels the message. Placing your finger on the touch-screen to place the cursor is next to impossible to control with any level of accuracy.
• This has always been a naff annoyance with Samsung phones; but when you backspace to clear a word you have to be careful not to press the button too quickly or it deletes your entire 6 page message. Conversely, when you actually want the backspace button to delete the entire entry, eg when you’re trying to add a word to the phone’s dictionary it only deletes one character for every press!
• In the add word function, the software writers forgot to add the box that tells you when you’re in uppercase or lowercase, and it defaults to uppercase, which is odd as 9 out of 10 times you don’t need your (more often than not slang or swear word!) to begin with a capital letter.
• The dictionary seems very limited, some very basic words are missing, words that were in the old my 3 year old samsung phone’s dictionary. Odd, and annoying.
• When in predictive text you type “them” and switch it to “then” using the 0+ key, and then add an exclamation mark or full stop it reverts back to “them”. Why? My 3 year old Samsung didn’t do this, and logically nor should it of course. So you have to press the # key before you add the punctuation, BUT that then adds a space, so you have to backspace first before you add the punctuation. Complete nonsense.
• When you type a word the dictionary doesn’t recognise it gives you every conceivable string it can imagine, even if your word was 3 letters, it then suggests 4 letter words, 5, 6, 7.. etc until you’ve hit the 0+ key about 50 times and then you finally get the “add word” option. If I typed a 3 letter word, guess what, I probably don’t need to see every 4 to 10 letter word alternative.
• This is a minor irritation but nevertheless a completely senseless change on Samsung’s part. Whereas you used to punctuate your texts but pressing the * key, and you would get a fullstop, followed by a comma etc.. now comma is 4th in the list, why? How is this an enhancement? It’s like having to learn to ride a bike again.
• A left swipe on the touch-screen enables you to shortcut the open menu option, wow, what a time saving shortcut, apart from the fact the open menu button is permanently on the front screen, so how is a swipe a shortcut versus a key select? This phone is quite heavy and solid, which is a positive aspect, but it also means it slides around in your hand a little, resulting in inadvertent swipes on the touch-screen, so the ability to right and left swipe on the screen are added functionality that are just completely unnecessary and bring more pain than they ever bring joy.
I dare say some of the criticisms above are unwarranted, I dare say that if I spent a month doing searches on google I’d find the solution to some of these problems, but the point is, should I have to? Shouldn’t it be intuitive? And why when it always was intuitive, have Samsung come up with non-intuitive “enhancements”?
In summary the Ultra Tocco is
delahay123 6 July 2009
Good: Design, Camera, UI, keypad, capacitive AMOLED touch screen looks great
Bad: occasional lags, no on-screen QWERTY
Comment: I have tested a lot of phones and although it is not my 1st choice that I use, whilst i was using it I did enjoy it very much. The camera was great, the screen was amazing, the UI was easy to use, and the keypad was a good addition. I personally only experienced one lag in my device over the three weeks of using it, and had none of the same lag problems i have heard of from others - maybe i was just lucky? I do wish that it had an on-screen qwerty as it did have an on-screen T9 but the T9 was easy to use.
The only reason that I do not still use the phone as i need a smartphone as i do a lot of emails for work, so the blackberry curve and storm are my phones (curve given to me by work, i bought the storm) but other than that i thoroughly recommend this phone and I found it very nice to use.
Nyadach 10 May 2009
Good: Screen is great, and camera is very good also.
Bad: Messy desktop, awful browsing and email capabilities, no integrated headphone socket.
Comment: Got it as an upgrade to my G600 old slider Samsung. Nice things were the camera on this one is actually pretty good and you no longer have to suffer the lag of waiting a day to actually take the pic, and finding you have a blurred mess. The Tocca Ultra's camera is a real plus, speed, clear images, fast and very responsive with a good zoom and even some photo editing afterwards.
The desktop user interface allows you to drag onto it widgets for various features...nice feature! But for the fact you can't lock them, and find yourself constantly miss clicking one and sliding its position, or moving the entire desktop (it can be larger than the screen) out of position messing up your interface. It is a nice idea, just badly lacking a lock or save positions feature makes it very frustrating over time.
Onboard speaker, and ring tones are very grainy and sound like someone’s been out sampling an old ZX48 or something. While on the headphones (via the silly adaptor) sound quality for MP3's is very nice.
Onscreen keyboard is also a joke, you have a standard slide out keypad you can type on, yet it’s nowhere near as nice a feel to it as the older G600's due to it not having individual buttons and them being very glossy. However, the onscreen keyboard is exactly the same layout even in landscape formation...come on Samsung, give it QWERTY!
Texting is also very nicely improved and has a very fluid feel to it with either the slide out keyboard or the onscreen. Very nicely done on that part of the phone.
Overall, it’s a typical Samsung evolution of the older phones, and some of it needs to evolve much further. They got the camera, texting and screen right...just a shame about much of the rest.