electricpig.co.uk Updated: 2011-08-17 21:31:17
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The Samsung Tocco Ultra wants to keep you sweet. While some phones give you a fixed set of features and menus, the Tocco Ultra lets you shuffle its offerings around, using Samsung’s TouchWiz interface. There’s also a gorgeous touchscreen and whopping 8...

OLED screen, 8 megapixel camera, neat software...

No WiFi, slow camera, no apps and dodgy texting...

The bad points outweigh the good to make us Ultra wary of the new Tocco...
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itreviews.com Updated: 2011-08-17 21:31:17
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The Tocco Ultra has a fairly strong range of features but it lacks Wi-Fi which pulls it down somewhat from the cutting edge. Overall it is good, but not great. Samsung - Tocco Ultra price Buy Samsung Tocco Ultra securely online at a bargain price £fre...
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gadgetshow.channel5.com Updated: 2011-08-17 21:31:18
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A sliding HSDPA touchphone with 2.8-inch OLED display. 240x400 resolution, 16 million colours. 8MP autofocus camera with LED flash, 30fps VGA video capture, GPS, 1GB microSD card. It measures 110x52x13mm and weighs 123g. The goodSamsung’s flagship hand...

Samsung’s flagship handset wants you to be happy. If you don’t like the home screen, the flexible TouchWiz interface lets you shuffle its web, media and organiser widgets around to your heart’s content – and even shift the operator...

The Ultra isn’t a smartphone. You can’t download bird-spotting guides to North Africa or an application to make people’s faces wobble. Get over it. More annoying is the lack of Wi-Fi, the occasional UI and web browser hiccups, and action...

If you’ve got some cash to spend but don’t need the hassle of a smartphone, the Tocco Ultra Edition should be top of your shopping list. Its camera, interface and media skills are almost flawless, and you’ll soon get used to its few usab...
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letsgomobile.org/en Updated: 2011-08-17 21:31:18
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M any recently introduced mobile phones feature a touchscreen. We have already investigated the large differences between the various touchscreens before, however; it may be clear that positive developments keep on taking place, and that the current ge...

T he Samsung Tocco is considered unique, thanks to the combined touchscreen and numeric keyboard and the AMOLED color screen. From experience, it is learned that only the touchscreen is used for operation, which makes the phone unnecessarily heavy a...
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On paper the Tocco Ultra sounds amazing. An eight megapixel camera with an AMOLED screen? Where can I sign up? But does the reality differ from the paper specs? I was wowed by the original Tocco, so will the Ultra be able to beat it? Watch and see.
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While last summer’s Tocco proved a hit for Samsung, its follow up isn’t simply a feature-refreshed, identikit Mark II model. For this season’s flagship Tocco Ultra Edition, Samsung has reconfigured the original minimalist design with a significant extr...

Combining touchscreen and slider design principles, the Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition adds some extra text-tapping usability to the touch format without bloating the device. It still manages to feel comfortable to handle, and pleasing to use. Its user i...
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gadgetrepublic.com Updated: 2011-08-17 21:31:18
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The Samsung Tocco Ultra merges touchscreen technology with a slide-out keypad and stylish good looks, but is this enough to hook us in?There's a lot to be said for the Samsung Tocco Ultra. It has many nifty features, looks smart, combines touch and key...
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Samsung's Tocco did quite well in my hands last July. The full frontal touchscreen was really gaining momentum and Samsung managed to differentiate itself by coming up with the idea of widgets for you to pull onto the screen from a sidebar. This allowed y...
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Verdict: Amazing picture quality and an above-average camera in a sturdy, well-designed package - but its let down by its poor battery life. Samsungs Tocco Ultra is the first mobile weve seen with an OLED display. Colours sprang out and contrast...
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computeractive.co.uk Updated: 2011-08-17 21:31:19
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This latest handset from Samsung builds on the company’s big success of last year, the touchscreen Tocco, with a side screen of widgets (calendar, music player and so on) so you can choose exactly what’s on the phone’s screen.This customisable screen w...

Great screen; strong camera; GPS builtin...

No standard headphone socket; no wireless networking; widgets not to everyone’s taste...

This is no smartphone and the touchscreen can be fiddly, but it’s a stylish handset...
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3g.co.uk Updated: 2011-08-17 21:31:19
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experience is fluid and consistent; the touch-screen is hugely responsive, and it’s great to have a standard keypad as an additional option. It’s feature heavy and, what’s more, they all excel, and the display is one of visual beauty. The Tocco Ultra...

Breathtaking AMOLED display, excellent camera function, and overall, exceptional user experience.

With just 80MB of onboard memory it’s a small mercy that the phone supports memory cards of up to 16GB.
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digitalversus.com Updated: 2011-08-17 21:31:19
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Average consumers still enjoy taking photos on their phones more than almost anything else, despite the wide range of other functionality now available on the average handset.It should come as no surprise, then, to learn that, following on from last au...

Uptodate photo and video capabilities, Speedy, intuitive interface, Decent audio player, More useful widgets, Smaller than its predecessors...

Easily damaged, Web browing not really worth it, No onscreen virtual QWERTY keyboard, Poor battery life...
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whatmobile.net Updated: 2011-08-17 21:31:20
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We believe there are quite a few people that fall into this camp. Because Samsung is calling the Tocco Ultra Edition their flagship for 2009, we have to assume theyre thinking the same.The advantage of the keypad is stupidly obvious, but that hasn’t s...
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pz10.com Updated: 2011-08-17 21:31:20
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Samsung S8300 UltraTOUCH, otherwise dubbed as the Tocco Ultra edition, joins in on the bandwagon of full touch handsets that seem to be occupying the upper range of the market quite successfully. Nothing can compare to the ease of use of a touchscreen...

The Samsung S8300 is an excellent looking device with novel design and if we are to pinpoint a stand-out feature, that has to be the camera. Still photographs are among the best, videos are excellent and we were left with nothing but positive impressio...
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This smartphone is a pleasurable little device that stacks up well against many of the smartphones on the New Zealand market. In the hand, the Samsung Ultra Touch S8300 ($928) light and sleek and weighs just 108 grams. The touchscreen is bright and sai...
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pcworld.co.nz Updated: 2011-11-05 21:52:15
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Youd be forgiven for thinking the Ultratouch is just another Samsung slider phone, but as soon as you see the bright and sharp screen you’ll see that there’s something different about this one. The Ultratouch is, as the name suggests, a touchscreen p...
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smh.com.au Updated: 2011-11-05 21:52:16
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Price $899Rating 4 Some phones are blessed with outstanding features, making them must-have mobiles. Others muddle along with only a few factors in their favour. Samsungs UltraTouch is a phone of a different stripe. Instead of a single seductive...
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smarthouse.com.au Updated: 2011-11-05 21:52:21
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At first glance, the S8300 looks just like any other slider phone from Samsung. But upon closer inspection (and just by looking at the name), one would know that this new mobile puts the power to change the interface in your fingertips. Click to enlar...
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Zdnet.com.au Updated: 2011-11-05 21:52:21
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Design Though UltraTouch sounds like a beauty product, a foot spa perhaps, the handset design is unmistakably masculine. The metal chassis on our review unit is mostly a chocolaty grey with metallic rose trimming, and combined with its sharply rounded...

Excellent 8megapixel camera, Slim slider form factor, AMOLED display looks amazing...

Laggy interface, Stiff, business look, No 3.5mm headphone socket on the phone, Keypad is cramped and hard to use, Not a smartphone...

Its camera is great and the screen looks amazing, but the UltraTouch is not a knockout. Its a weird mix of business looks, average apps and dodgy performance, and we just cant tell who exactly Samsung is trying to sell it to.
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A full touch-screen mobile phone that also features a physical slide-out keypad, Samsungs UltraTouch aims to provide the best of both worlds. This stylish slider phone is a great option for people who are intrigued by touch-screen technology but arent ready to throw away the familiar physical keys just yet. The Samsung UltraTouch features a stylish, brushed steel finish on the front, and curved, gloss grey casing on the rear. Samsung has added some interesting touches to the design — red edgi...

Design, superb AMOLED display, build quality, fast and responsive interface, 8-megapixel camera, HSDPA-capable...

No 3.5mm headphone jack, limited accelerometer, no Wi-Fi...

The Samsung UltraTouch is a great option for those who are intrigued by touch-screen technology but aren’t ready to completely throw away the familiar physical keys just yet. The lack of Wi-Fi and a regular headphone jack are disappointments, but th...
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knowyourmobile.com Updated: 2014-03-22 02:08:45
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Taking its successful Tocco template and adding a novel twist, Samsung swerves away from the regular touchscreen formula with its new S8300 Tocco Ultra Edition, adding a slide-down numberpad to go with all the finger-swiping control gadgetry.While boos...

quality music playback, Inear earphones with 3.5mm headphone adapter included...

No WiFi, No smartphone OS, Some parts of texting operation can still be fiddly, Striking contrast colours used may not suit every taste, Limited AGPSbased features, LED flash rather than highpowered xenon flash...

Samsung reworks the Tocco template with a hybrid touchscreen and sliderphone design that also packs in a superb 8-megapixel camera and a decent range of easy to use features...
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stuff.tv Updated: 2014-03-22 02:08:45
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Samsung has mastered the art of the slide phone. Handsets like the i8510 and F400 have shown it knows how much spring to add, how to balance the phone in the hand whether it’s open or shut and, most importantly, where to position the camera. This is...

Sleek and sexy. Great, bright screen. Eight-megapixel camera...

No Xenon flash. No 3.5mm headphone jack. Lacks Wi-Fi...

An impressive marriage of touchscreen and slide phone, but not quite the all-rounder it claims to be...
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recombu.com Updated: 2014-03-31 03:40:32
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Samsung's gift for creating classy slider phones mixes with touchscreen technology to produce a phone that - it's hoped - will be the best of both worlds. The Samsung S8300 Tocco Ultra Edition - or Ultra Touch in some countries - has a regular phone ke...

The Tocco Ultra Edition is a stylish, capable handset with bright touchscreen and a conventional keypad for the touch-shy. It has a good 8-megapixel camera that delivers strong results, but the touchscreen interface is not quite as intuitive as the iPh...
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Mobile88.com Updated: 2016-11-26 16:44:12
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REMEMBER the days when camera phones were only 1.3 megapixels? Then came 2.0, 3.2, 5.0 and now everyone is going ga-ga over 8.0 megapixels. Samsung has added another contender into the camera phone fray, this time with the extremely stylish S8300. Let&...

Great screen; excellent camera; lots of multimedia features; strong build.

Underpowered battery; slightly clumsy and sluggish user interface; no WiFi.

While the stylish Samsung S8300 excels in call and voice quality, multimedia applications, camera and video capture, I just couldn’t help but feel let down by a few things. The user experience could have been improved if the on-screen buttons were j...
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pcworld.in Updated: 2016-11-26 16:44:12
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The Samsung UltraTouch S8300, also known as the ‘Tocco’ is one of Samsung’s newest touch-based cellphones to hit the Indian market. Apart from a more refined take on Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz interface, the S8300’s stand-out feature is its 8 megap...

Best Camera in its Class, Large AMOLED Screen, Stylish Looks...

Sluggish Interface, No WiFi...

The new touch-based phone from Samsung sports a large AMOLED 2.8 inch screen and a superb 8MP camera...
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techtree.com Updated: 2016-11-26 16:44:12
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The Samsung Ultra Touch has finally graced our labs after a long time of waiting. It offers a sleek and stylish design with a sliding form factor which hides a regular alphanumeric keypad below. Then there is the large and stunning AMOLED touch screen...

Design and build, superb display, camera quality, comfortable keypad, multitasking for certain apps...

No 3.5mm headphone jack, memory card not hot swappable, inadequate flash, no Wi-Fi, no TV out...

The Samsung Ultra Touch has finally graced our labs after a long time of waiting. It offers a sleek and stylish design with a sliding form factor which hides a regular alphanumeric keypad below. Then there is the large and stunning AMOLED touch screen...
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firstpost.com Updated: 2016-11-26 16:44:12
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Samsung’s on a roll with this, the Ultra Touch being the third mobile handset bearing an 8 megapixel camera lens. They’ve gone with an amalgamation of form factors with this one – it has a touchscreen like the and it’s also a slider like the But enou...

Great camera, Good sound quality, Support for popular video formats, UI is smooth, Good battery life...

Physical Keypad was unnecessary, No resume play for videos, Geotagging didnt seem to work, No hot swap for memory card, Only a 1GB card included with packaging, Good features but a little quirky...

CameraThe best contribution from the company to the consumer is the handset’s 8 Megapixel autofocus camera. The LED flash is also quite handy but the other features are what really makes the camera stand out. It features – Face and Smile detec...
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The Samsung S8300 is an excellent looking device with novel design and if we are to pinpoint a stand-out feature, that has to be the camera. Still photographs are among the best, videos are excellent and we were left with nothing but positive impressi...
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