Samsung mobiles phones have long offered good value at low prices, and with the Samsung Tocco Lite they’ve gone after the young consumer who wants a touchscreen – in fact, it’s a direct competitor of the very popular LG Cookie.
It combines the best of touchscreen and mobile phone technology, offering not only a full QWERTY keyboard on the screen but also a regular phone pad for calling and for those used to regular texting. There’s a 3.2 megapixel camera on board that also handles video, and users can edit photos on the phone itself.
Attention has been paid to what the consumer will want, including a music player with surround sound and an equaliser, FM radio, and memory expandable up to 16GB. There’s Bluetooth, of course, and ready access to social networking sites like YouTube and Facebook, which is pretty much a necessity for the young market. However, it lacks both GPS and Wi-Fi.
Samsung has brought its TouchWiz interface to the handset, and it works as well here as it does elsewhere. Switching between portrait and landscape modes is smooth, and the home screen can be customised readily. The large screen is ideal for web browsing, which is fast, although download speeds do tend to be slower since there’s no 3G, but that’s a reminder that the Tocco Lite is a budget phone, although it all too often doesn’t look or feel it.
Mobile phone reviews have placed the Samsung Tocco Lite ahead of the LG Cookie, simply because of the better user experience. As bargain phones go, it’s a real deal.
