Samsung Tocco review

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7.1

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December 7, 2008

Posted by: Budski

"Almost, but not quite"

What I like:

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

What I don't like:

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

Review:

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.