Samsung Tocco review

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March 31, 2009

Posted by: 227duke

"Fundamentally flawed"

What I like:

Looks

What I don't like:

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Review:

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.