Samsung F480 Tocco
05 JUN 2008
Launch price
from £free
Stuff says
Compact, good-looking and responsive, the Tocco is one of the slickest touchscreen phones out there
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Texting, one of the iPhone’s achilles heels, is not perfect here either. The Tocco uses a virtual phone keypad with predictive text. A QWERTY keypad would have been too small to be comfortable, so this was the best choice, but it’s still hard to type at speed.
Class-leading camera
There is some redemption thanks to the excellent camera. Not only is it a 5MP model, it has grown-up features like face detection, image stabilisation and smile shutter, which sees the camera take a shot automatically when it sees a grinning mug.
Music lovers will enjoy the Samsung’s player, too. There’s only 230MB of memory here, but you can add more with microSD cards. And if you hear a track you don’t recognise, the Shazam program is on hand to send you a message with the track details and album art.
The customisation extends beyond the widgets – if you like haptic feedback, the Tocco has this too, letting you adjust the level of vibration from none at all to masochistic.
It’s not perfect, but the Samsung Tocco is one of the neatest touch-sensitive phones yet, matching excellent specs with an appealing UI.