I’ll be honest with you, the Samsung Tocco (F480) was not my first choice laptop, I really wanted an iPhone. Unfortunately, use one of the Apple-esq wonder if you’re selling your soul and your wallet empty for O2. Do not get me wrong, I love O2, they were my first and only supplier of network-and service is always impeccable. But now do I pay £ 15 a month for a respectable amount of texts and minutes, the lowest rate for the iPhone is two times – and for £ 30 per month you get 75 minutes 125 text and ridiculous. Oh, and you have the best part of £ 160 to spend for the iPhone! Sad as it gave me the decision has been taken to go elsewhere for my new machine. I had always been a big fan of Samsung units, progressing from an F400 to a D900 on the D600 – all decent, intuitive and easy to use mobile friendship which had served well to use. A quick browse of sales in January on the website of O2 offer a free cast Tocco on £ 15 a month tariff, I thought it was an offer too good to pass up, and as Tocco is ordered and will be my new solution for mobile and Gadgets.

Contents of the box?

First, and of course most importantly, get the Tocco itself. A beautiful piece of technology wrapped in a shiny silver and black style – about the size of a credit card, but in all the thick, weighing one hundred and six grams per svelte. Besides the box is the charger, which – with the USB cable – to connect the phone via the multifunction connector, like the study in the trendy ear headphones. A cleverly designed lid is the following, which has an integrated battery cover folds around the front of the phone to protect the glossy screen of the dirty paw prints and scratches. Personally I chose not to use it, especially because I use the movie screen protectors for the screen scratch-and smudge-free account. A CD with Samsung PC Studio can be installed on your computer Natty this piece of software allows the user to transfer images, MP3s or from phone to PC and vice versa. There is also a backup solution for Nice phone, e-mails and text messages. Finally, there is a selection of documents, including an instruction booklet on page fifty, the details of the guarantee of two years and selected leaflets inform you of your life will be like to get the latest ringtones, games and download full screen Fund of Samsung’s website.

Key Facts

5-megapixel camera – Under the skin of the Tocco heartbeat of a camera feature rich and intuitive. Auto focus and stabilization get to easily take pictures while running the Face Detection feature facilitates the search for a face in the camera image and therefore focus on it – a good idea if the majority of your pictures from the breeder. Better yet how many smiles, that determines when a person smiles and automatically takes the picture. After testing both, I can confirm that it works like a charm, just do not ask me how! 4x digital zoom, LED flash and features such as single shot multi shot, mosaic shot, panorama mode, frames and complete specifications nice. The Tocco is a powerful video recorder can record video clips, while the internal memory or microSD may contain inserted. And thanks to the construction application Shozu, photos, videos and voice recordings can be downloaded directly to blogs and websites such as Flickr and YouTube.

Full Touch Screen – The 2.8 “TFT touch screen is brilliant in the air and Design. Photos and videos are displayed in an impressive 256,000 colors. The touch screen is operated by the finger instead of stylus, making the whole experience much more portable (who wants a pen to write text while walking down the street!) Menus are cleverly constructed so that a few finger taps the camera, MP3 or any other application or function you need.

MP3 player and FM Radio – The music has benefited from the technical expertise of heavy melodic Bang & Olufsen. It offers a clear and evident that contrary to such a small device. The player also supports AAC and WMA music files, SP-Midi, among other things, essentially as a music file chances are the Tocco will be able to play. The FM radio stations you can store pre-listening, and gives a clear, static free broadcast. By far the best feature music wise, is the music recognition. If you happen to be a piece of music that you asked “What is this song called hear?” a simple tap of the finger can start the application, which then records the air for the analysis and send the information. What makes this feature so amazing is that they do not have the music being played on the music player or radio telephones to be. So if you’re in the pub and hear a really catchy melody simply the function of music recognition and in less than 20 seconds, he will tell you the song and the artist and even give you the ability to buy music in MP3 format. As a bit skeptical about this feature, I have half a dozen times so far tested, and each time he gave the correct results. The music not even be clear, the question always seems to choose the song and properly identified. The music recognition is powered by Shazam, which has over 6 million songs in their library, but some of all recognition, a great application that really distinguishes the Tocco from other phones. Finally, the icing on the cake is the melodic ability to download podcasts, just like anything else you want to listen.

Widgets – Widgets are what give the Tocco individuality. Windows Vista users will be familiar with the sidebar widgets, and Samsung is an abridged version, touch-sensitive. Utilization of the widget bar slips out of his hiding place and shows a selection of useful widgets. It is just a matter of dragging the screen with your finger, it broadens the widget and makes it ready for use. Once finished, you drag the widget on the sidebar where he is among his people. Widgets are eight in all – including a digital calendar and an analog clock, birthday reminder, radio and music player and photo viewer. Widgets can be added or removed from the sidebar via the display settings in the phone menu.

Haptic feedback – which essentially shaking the bells and whistles is added. When you touch the phone vibrates slightly, the whole experience just that bit more interesting is that you feel is the phone to answer all your touch – much better than the hammering of the screen and not any kind of feedback.
Bluetooth connectivity – and not just an ancient Bluetooth connectivity, the Tocco has stereo Bluetooth version 2.0. A quick and easy way to connect devices to the phone, that allows you to transfer pictures shot with the camera a child, he is also a great way to connect to other Bluetooth phones, PDAs and computers to share files. For those who feel safer with the son of the phone also offers a USB2 connection, to transfer files and backup is simply a matter of running the workshop Samsung PC released.

Applications – The applications on the Tocco are many and varied, a few games pre-installed, you can make time to kill some time while the notes, tasks, voice recorder, you can set reminders to your dictate thoughts to our prosperity. World Clock does exactly what it says, which allows you a widget that two time zones – useful when you are calling from abroad or visiting one piece. Converter will tell you all of the currency, weight, length, volume and temperature, while the calculator allows you to force the brains of these mathematical problems. The timer can count down from a preset time – handy if you need soft boiled egg just right, while the timer counts the time in the opposite direction, from scratch. Finally, the video editor you can see the clips you have taken with the installation of the camera and manipulate RSS feed to keep you informed about what you want.
The best of the rest – If I had all aspects of the Tocco detail we would be here ’till next week, here are the features worth mentioning. HTML Internet connectivity via 3G or WAP is 2, while e-mail, SMS, MMS, conferencing and video calls are only one finger stroke away. The Tocco Triband means that you have a long way to go before you lose your signal, while a speaker option allows you to talk without having the phone to your ear. The folder can store up to 1000 contacts, which even the most popular means of us have room to spare. POP3, SMTP and IMAP4 e-mail authentication gives your Inbox in the era of mobile document viewer and can be saved and those that are important for Word and PowerPoint files to display.

The good

call clarity is first class music and offers a clear sound belying small phones. The real benefit of the Tocco’s camera, the specifications and not embarrass a stand-alone camera on a phone is great. The meaning and information on the screen is there, he meets all your contacts in a way guaranteed. And the width of the functions genuine pressure on the value of the Tocco, he can effortlessly from a telephone, a stopwatch, a currency converter, music player, clock radio and a web browser to set without breaking sweat. It looks good too, the screen is large and bright, while the lack of physical buttons adds to the mystique. return and the world seems like a special camera with flash and lens.

Arm

The 233MB internal memory is small, although it may seem like a good amount that you realize that the time to take some pictures and an album or two to listen to memory will begin to evaporate quickly download. This situation is easily remedied with the option of adding up to 8 GB of storage via the MicroSD slot – but you may wonder why Samsung, in their infinite wisdom, not a good phone better adding this amount of internal storage. There’s no GPS, I think it’s only a problem if you do not know where you are half the time but in all honesty I am in no way affected by when I need to know where I am or if I go, I will card purchase! By far the biggest bugbear for me is that you can listen to the radio with headphones, which seems a strange state of affairs if you are able to listen to MP3s without them. Finally, the Tocco delivered without QWERTY keyboards, that is of little importance unless you have a lot of mobile email. If you mainly use your phone as a portable electronic device that you are probably much more likely to go anyway towards Blackberry.

The Tocco good to call?

With many different tricks and treats the sleeve of the Tocco, is easy to forget that this is a phone at heart. The many functions are fine, but if the quality of calls made and received to defeat really a waste of time. Fortunately, the book Tocco stirlingly on this front. The directory is easy to navigate with the push of a button, or if you prefer to manually key in the screen turns into a touch pad. I found that the volume of calls is on the strong side, a welcome change that mobile calls can often seem small and distant. It’s easy to change the volume using the buttons on the phone side. You can also show the volume and intensity of the vibration call the same way. In general, the battery life is about my three days with moderate use texting and calling, I think it would be much shorter after a period of photographing or use of heavy music. The charging time appears to speed things and generally low battery “alert to a phone is fully charged three to four hours. Samsung has an impressive 250 hours standby, but I did not stop playing with the many features long enough to try to test this theory. The amount of the polyphonic ringtones pre-installed is nice, but the possibility of using MP3 music or even more for the same purpose.

Conclusion

This is the case of Tocco excite me and put my inner gadget freak? You bet. Comparisons with the iPhone is a bit redundant, because both their strengths and weaknesses. Yes Samsung to 8 GB of memory in the phone instead of as an upgrade for users, but about ten pounds for a 8GB microSD card is not really a big problem. GPS would have been nice, but again it is something that has been compromised in favor of other mobile assets. One concern I had with the touch screen is whether it would be activated by my cheek or ear when I used the phone, happy with a button makes the screen is locked and can be accidentally activated. I’m glad I went for the Samsung Tocco, especially as a free upgrade – and let’s face it, there will soon be no such offer for the iPhone!