Samsung S8300 Tocco Ultra Slide Phone Touchscreen 3G mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs

+ Phone looks superb, touch screen is responsive.

- Only bad point is the battery doesn't last much longer than a day!

+ love it best phone i have had

- battery life to short

+ Design , camera, features

- touch screen can be fiddly , can be a bit complicated

+ This phone is an amazing 3G device, since this is my first 3G phone i'm amazed and the speed of the internet on the device. Surfing the web is like using a laptop, although i would reccomend Opera Mini and not the webnwalk application as it's rather slow. The camera is the highlight of this phone, the ability to snap shot on the spot with lots huge detail and able to crop later with out loss of quality is amazing, I was impressed when usig the camera in the night , not many blurrey photos ( anti shake must be on!) .
Although It's the small things that impress me like 'find track' mode like track id is supererb and fast. (3 seconds to find a song on 3G). The organizer is gd but not the best if you are a business user, but for me i find it user friendly. The sound qualtiy is superb it easily mathces my dedicated samsung mp3 played ( and apple's ipod). last but not least the GPS google maps is gd but too slow to replace your sat nav. it's more of a 'i'm lost where am i ?" app to find which street your in.

- There arn't many bad points it's a shame they are quite impotant 1's. Many people do complain about battery life, i do agree if you are a heavy user, i can get 2 days out of it using videoo and camera. which is poor although standby time is exellent around a week of sandby. reason being samsung chose it on the cheap by using 880mAh which is the same as my brothers W510i which uses a fraction of the battery power. Many people find texting annoying while there is a minor software glitch in texting i found the keypad easy to use and almost no 'adjusting' time to texting thanx to it's T9 auto spell, although i did use to have a motorola.
My worst complaint is the signal in my area, unless you're in the city and stood next to a booster, 3G connection is poor compared to using 2G which was extemely reliable. And thats it, all in all a good pohne if you can live with these issues - and i find the good poins out ways these problems.

+ Very beautiful phone, very stylish and a nice screen. The menus are well laid out and it has great multimedia features. The phone features are also top quality as it has a great contacts system, the mic and speaker are very clear and the 3g system is excellent. A really nice phone that no other compares to.

- Touch screen is aweful. After owning an iTouch you are fully aware of how responsive a good touch screen is and this isn't a good one. It just doesn't respond unless you really press carefully and its not easy to use. Its also very slow as if you were to enter a word and then press space you'll find you've got wrong and missing letters as well as no space. It also stops scrolling when you take your finger off, which is just wasted momentum. Its a fantastic phone and is very stylish and the quality of the screen is fantastic, its just the touch system that lets it down.

+ The camera is excellent and the touch screen is easy to use and works well.

- Sometimes it just shuts down, not sure if its the phone itself or because it has too many features on it cant handle it all.

+ It's a good, stylish looking phone. I love the fact that it has a touch screen and the sliding bit as well, although I don't use it. Texting is easy once you have got used to it, as is the general use of the phone.

- The battery life doesn't last very long, and you have to slide the phone up to be able to use loudspeaker when in a call, which when the light doesn't last very long when in a call, can be quite difficult.

+ overall excellent very happy if dont want to use touch screen you can use side buttons to scroll, screen and camera excellent and looks good

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+ A stunning and compact design, the touch screen is responsive and the interface is intuitive and easy to use and understand. The phone feels solid to the touch and is small enough for one handed operation unlike most other smartphones and the current plethora of iphone clones!

- Battery life is decidedly average, especially when new (so many features to explore). The colours currently available may not be to everyones taste. The red definately has more than a hint of pink and baby blue is not for me.

+ Looks great. Excellent camera. Browsing is fast and easy. Sound quality is good. Display clear and bright and easy to see, especially with the accelerometer to enable viewing horizontally or vertically. Choice of keypad or virtual keypad means faster typing and made the transition to a touch screen phone was no problem. Easy to use and the widgets sidebar means quick access to anything you use regularly. Generally pleasing and easy to use all round.

- As with most phones, the display is not easy to read in sunshine. I haven't found a way to scroll thru text already written but have found that I can place the cursor by tapping the text in the relevant place. I have also 'lost' a widget a couple of times and assumed that I had 'whizzed' them too far off the screen. To get tehm back I had to remove them from the sidebar and then put them back. I would definitely recommend the S830 and have already done so!

+ Geat camera and nice design.

- No wi-fi and slightly clunky interface.

+ its about the best mobile iv ever had, so easy to upload photos to photobucket and facebook

- battery is useless, has to be charged every day, more if you use the internet

+ Covers the best of both types (slide/touch screen) and is easy to use

- took alittle while to get used to the features

+ Clear,bright AMOLED touch screen.Good clear audio .the 'widget' features and the 3G internet upto 7.2 mbps

- dire battery life-expect to charge it daily!(if you tinker with it as much as me) if using the keypad to enter text fields online-the keypad doesnt appear to have a delete key (as when typing text messages)

+ Very slim and good looking. Was not sure about switching to a touch phone - this has the advantage of a keyboard as well.

- Manual hopeless, touch not always very responsive. Cannot switch alarm to silent on calendar items

+ Large screen that makes it easy to see everything

- Sometimes the touch screen is not sensitive enough, and a bit fiddly with text messaging, flicking between touchscreen and keypad.

+ An excellent easy to use handset that looks amazing and has a fantastic camera.

- As with most touch screen phones you can press buttons by mistake but the lock button is extremely easy to use and an essential feature.

+ It combines both the touch screen and a user friendly keypad on the slider. It's thin design and classy feel. It's a solid phone, not plastic like some of its competitors.

- I can't think of any at all.

+ Easy to use, slide out keypad is great for those who want a stylish touch screen, but without the complications on one.

- if you tilt your phone whilst viewing photos, the photo flips angle and keeps skipping to the next one. good if you want to view a very fast slide show, but can get rather annoying!!

+ very slim

- battery

+ Just an amazing phone! Everything is brilliant about it.

- Battery life is a little too short, but still acceptable. I expect it would be much longer if I didn't use the camera so much. Rarely doesn't respond to commands. But very rare.

+ This phone has many great features, the camera is fantastic and is very well designed.

- The only thing i can say bad about this phone is, its a bid hard to see the display in the sunshine but hey most phones are.

+ once you get the hang of the phone its easy to use looks nice and the battery life is good on it i totally love this phone and would be completley lost without it now

- it is quite complicated to work out how to use the internet settings although i did eventually get the hang of it after a lot of trial and error the instruction booklet didnt really help explain navigation etc

+ like the choice of touch screen and key pad. it is light weight and the screen colour is excellent. large memory for storing music videos and text messages.

- it would be nice to have the option of a pen instead of using your finger on the screen. The battery life is not very good and does disappear quickly. The sound is not very loud and does not seem to have a surround sound option.

+ Its a real easy phone to use, Samsung have put alot of effort into its design and function and this phone really does them proud.

- Sometimes the touch screen can be too sensitive so if the phone is in your pocket for some time you may find you have access the internet without realising.
Solution is.....make sure the screen locks out before doing anything with it.

+ Very easy to use! and loving the touch screen and having a keypad, much better than the original tocco! camera is reaaally good, friends are very jelous ha. looks very smart aswell. overall, very good phone.

- so far my only problem is how easily it scratches ( not the screen! ), after putting it into my bag and taking it back out, i had found it is already covered in small scratches, not very noticable but still very annoying if you know they are there! also if you make a mistake when texting there is no arrow to go back, annoying if you have big fingers!

+ looks good

- touch sceen is not all that good the battery life is shocking and the overall features dont live upto its expectations

+ Slim phone offering nice features. The 8mp camera is definatly the best i have seen. The phone itself has a nice slender exterior. overall the design of the phone has been well thought out. If you stuggle with the touch screen when using it for texting there is a keypad available to save frustration. I thought this was a brilliant idea obviously this phone has been well thought out.

- Battery life could be longer and somtimes the touch screen can be a little frustrating. Also i was very dissapointed when the phone didnt come provided with a carry case to prevent damage to the exterior. I would really want a case/sleve.

+ Its fab!

- None

+ the phone is very nice and light.i also like the design its fantastic.

- the back cover is easy to be scratched.already mine is scratched so i ended up buying a phone case cause i was so dissapointed.

+ a stylish compact easy to use phone with a responsive touch screen .amazing camera.also great to have a key psd aswell

- bit ion the heavy side but better than other touch screen small than the other touch screen phones

+ Really nice clear screen, excellent camera and looks beautiful.

- Screen could be more responsive, the software is poor compared to mobiles. When texting the layout of keys is awkward making it uncomfortable to hold.

+ AMAZING PICTURE QUALITY, EASY TO USE

- NOT KEEN ON THE CAMERA FUNCTION BUTTON AND ALSO THE SLIDING PHOTO VIEWER IS TRICKY IF YOU WANT TO SHOW SOMEONE AS IT THE PHOTO SLIDES OF THE SCREEN IF YOU MOVE THE PHONE.

+ style, size , camera

- no decent ring tones

+ GOOD CAMERA,LOOKS GOOD,

- NO WI-FI, T9 PREDICTIVE TEXT IS COMPLICATED IF U PUT A COMMA ON THE END OF SOME WORDS IT CHANGES THE WORD COMPLETELY.

+ Really like the style of the phone
People have said to me it looks a classy phone
Loads of features on it Mobile TV, Email, 8MP Camera,GPS,3G, Video calling
Great camera very clear photos
Nice large screen
Just love samsung phones

- Find the touch screen very sensitive I have called wrong people at times and sent blank texts
Also sometimes takes a few touches on the screen to send texts as touch is not always recognized

+ Love the phone especially the touch screen, and it looks fantastic. The slide down keypad is a godsend also, as texting on the screen keypad can be a bit tricky if you are on the move.

- Only thing I dislike about this phone is the battery life, ts not even lasting 24 hrs and thephone is not used excessively.

+ I love this phone and so far have no complaints about it. It is easy to use and having the keypad makes texting so much easier than a normal touch phone. The music quality is really good, the camera is excellent with great editing features and it also looks really good too!!!

- None that I can find!!

+ Touch Screen
Sound
Battery
Display Quality

- widgets no way to remove them
no compatable themes available
Slide element is unessecary phone needs to be a slide phone OR a touch screen

+ really like the touch sreen, it looks modern and is easy to use

- battery life isnt too good

+ Good looking phone. Has everything needed - good for keypad and touchscreen. Nice size screen good colour. Web browsing good and ability to personalise display excellent. Camera good and has a good calendar/organiser. Most features good.

- Volume could be slightly higher - don't always hear it when in handbag. Battery needs to be recharged more frequently than previous handset.

+ Excellent screen, fast and simple to use. The scrolling contacts is very good. Widgets are nice and simple customise. Sound quality excellent, and with the 8gb mini sd I added, it carries plenty of songs and video. Being able to customise your home screen with widgets is nice, and the scrolling window is ace. Photo quality great inb good conditions.

- Battery life isn't great. If I talk for more than 60 mins and do some web browsing and photos, it's down to one bar in a day. Not good if you're out all day without a charger. Touch screen can be fiddly, particularly clicking on some links on web pages. I don't seem able to lock widgets down to the home screen - it's easy to lose them as it's such a big scrolling area. Photo quality not so great in poorer conditions, and camera quite slow.

+ The phone looks great and the touchpad is incredibly easy to use.

- The battery is good if you don't use the phone but does not last very long if you use the phone as a music player and phone.

+ its small compact great picture and video looks good music sounds really good

- battery life is very poor

+ VERY GOOD VALUE.BEST PHONE I HAVE HAD AND NETWORK.

- BATTERY LIFE DOES NOT LAST VERY LONG

+ its small compact touch screen works well and texting is easy.

- cameras hard to work

+ the phone looks nice

- the battery life is appauling and the touch screen varies in sensitivity

+ Great design, brilliant camera, decent memory capability

- No back function when texting....what a pain!!
Softwear sometimes not as quick as could be

+ Looks good and has good camera ability also the picture quality on screen is excellent.

- Very bad battery life, I would expect far better of a phone at this price and build quality..like buying expensive sandwhich and finding no filling in it!
Also onscreen touch keypad can be very sluggish, just as well they put real key pad on or I would quickly loose patience altogether.
If I could go back in time would have got the Blackberry, better made,easy to use,they covered all the basis.

+ camera is outstanding beutifull looking phone and easy to get used to

- battery life is terrible, internet isnt what it is made out to be,

+ Great slim design, the Koreans definitely know how to make their phones appeal to the fashion market! Nice colour, not too heavy.

- The software is a bit jerky, when scrolling through contacts it gives off the vibrations that means the screen should be scrolling but it isn't. The battery only lasts 1 day, and that's only making 1 short call of about 2 minutes, sending about 20 - 30 sms and going on facebook 3 - 4 times. The T9 dictionary is dreadful, it's not intelligent like on other phones, if you put a word in, that word is then ALWAYS the first suggestion, every time I type "let" it now comes up with "Kev" instead of learning that I always scroll through to let, it just doesn't learn, very frustrating!

+ I love my Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition...Not only does it look good (I got the red one) Its packed with features and with the combination of touch screen and keypad make it easier to use. The camera is brilliant and all you would expect from an 8MP. Browsing the internet is easy and very quick. The headphones i got with the phone are excellent, great sound off them. Holds hundreds of songs and ideal to use as your personal music player with shuffle and playlist options.

- when browsing the internet u have no option but to use the touch screen...a navigation key would have been useful (replacing the back key with a navigation key would have been better) sometimes if your trying to click on a link that is small, its quite hard to get the touch screen to select the small link...you often have to zoom in and out of webpages to help you.

+ nice design and easy to hold

- very sensitive

+ amazing phone, never fails to impress. awesome features, good camera.

- battery life is a bit short, but ok if its charged at least every other night.

+ First off, I love this phone. The touchscreen, while slightly laggy at times, is a lot easier to use than navigation buttons in my opinion. The camera quality is very much worth the money for this phone, along with its internal memory. The widgets are very handy, but also have a major downside, which i'll cover in the bad section.The sound quality of the phone is decent, along with a fairly good battery life.

- Texting with touchscreen is a bit annoying, as if you make a mistake, and want to go back, you pretty much have to delete everything up to the point you want to correct. The touchscreen has a hard time pinpointing exactly where you want it to be in the text editor. The other downside to this phone, is the widget system. Whilst very useful, there is no function to lock the widgets in place, and if your keypad is unlocked for whatever reason, widgets can accidentally be moved around, which is very annoying.

+ The camera is amazing - really clear, colourful pictures with auto focus and an anti shake feature which work really well. It looks lovely and the touch screen works well once you're used to it. Software that comes with it makes it really easy to download and upload on and off the camera.

- Very bad battery life. I'm having to plug it in every other day and I'm not even using it that much! Think the touch screen zaps the life out of it. However, I'm never far from home so don't have a prob plugging it in regularly. Wouldn't be good for someone who does a lot of traveling.
Takes a while to get used to it if coming from a different make - predictive text is a bit clumsy and there's no quick way to put an apostrophe in, which drives me mad as I'm very grammar conscious!

+ The touch screen option along with the keypad is excellent so yu get the best of both worlds, at first i didn't think i could get used to the touch screen but it's so user friendly i never use the keypad now. The camera and film quality are above excellent, it like having an expensive digital camera at the touch of a button. Really excellent design quality, it looks great! The vedio calls are an excellent feature, my partner and i can now see each other as we chat as he works long hours so this is a great way for me to see him.

- The battery life doesn't seem to last that long which is a bit disapointing but it's not that big a deal!. Sometimes when i'm on a call the touch pad its hypersensitive and knocks my voice calls on mute as my ear has knocked it on.

+ Internet is speedy and easy to use. Found it simple to get used to the phone as I am a Samsung person anyway. Picture/video quality is flawless and the phone does have some good features. Screen display is also brilliant.

- If you're using manual input rather than T9, the phone doesn't seem to understand and apostrophe, texting in general is quite difficult. Battery life is shocking, especially if you make use of the internet, at the moment I'm having to charge mine everynight.

+ You can either use the touch screen or the keypad to text

- Easy to answer a call

+ The touchscreen is really easy to use. Sound quality through the supplied earbuds is fantastic. Picture quality if great, which you'd expect from 8mp. Overall a great phone and much more user-friendly than my husband's N96.

- Really annoying is the fact that you can't type two letters off the same keypad button quickly, i.e. if you're typing "hello" you have to wait for the first L to settle in before typing the next one, instead of moving right and typing straight away. Linked to this is if you make a mistake, you can't go backwards and correct the error, you have to delete everything! A pain in the wotsit!! Other people have had issues with the battery life, but it's perfectly adequate for me - as long as you remember to close down the applications you're not using, there's no problem at all. Obviously if you use the phone for emailing and keeping up on Facebook, then it's not going to last for ever.

+ Its web capabilities are great and the technology is very impressive.

- Difficult to use, navigation keys not the best. Also it is too big - the slide and the large screen make it too cumbersome.

+ Good, clear display; compact; many features

- Poor user manual - many points far too brief - need much more detail on how to use features and get the best from them

+ the 'phone looks good and i like the touch screen but it takes some getting used to! if you are creating a text message and make a spelling mistake you can go back to the word you have typed by touching the screen. (a previous review said you had to use the back arrow and this could delete text that was ok).
the phone is very light and thin- good for putting in your pocket.

- my handset broke after 3 weeks. The screen was faulty and it had to go back for repair. (i have now got a new handset).
I am not keen on the choice of ringtones (but i am funny and like a normal ring and not a tune)
Not that easy to see the screen in sunlight (but are any phones?)
the user guide on the website and the booklet with the 'phone could have given a lot more information.

+ its a great phone very stylish, easy to use much better than the standard tocco, it sports an 8mp camera which takes amazing pictures

- the battery life is rubbish,

+ Great camera especially panoramic scene setting.
Great combo of touch screen and keypad.

- Comes with no full games and had problems downloading any.
Widget bar quite annoying - pops in when didn't mean to!

+ Amazing camera which takes very clear photos. The panoramic function is superb. Design is sleek and all in all a VERY nice looking phone.

- Texting is difficult. No proper emoticons (like the sony ericsons) - no animations also. The 3 previous SE phones I have had all beat this hands down for texting. However I fancied a change and I am not too disappointed.

+ It is very easy to use wuith the touch screen once you get use to it,and saves going into alot of settings to get to where you want

- The battery life doesnt last very long,i had the n95 nokia before and it went on for ages so compared to this i was quite dissapointed.
The internet access isnt very easy to use ither,i tried to get onto a webpage for a few days n i gave up in the end

+ the camera is very good

- cause iam hard of earing the sound does let it down

+ All good apart from the battery life, Camera brilliant.

- Battery life and repeatedly telling me I have a missed call from a previous day!

+ This phone looks great, and once you geat used to it it's easy to use. The camera has some great features, and the screen resolution shows off the photo's & videos well.

- The battery life is poor, if you use the phone alot you will have to carry a charger with you! The other let down for me is that as with all samsungs you can't set your own music or tones as your text tone.

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- when on the fone the screen just touchs your face and goes into other features

+ Easy and fast texting, touch screen good, looks good, simple to use

- battery life, if you use the touch screen alot the battery loses power very quickly

+ Amazing camera. Good sound quality. Good looking phone.

- Navigation could be made a bit simpler....some functions are hard to find. No calculator. Turning off alarm can be a bit difficult if you don't hit it properly.

+ The phone is very smart, small and compact, but has everything you would ever need from a mobile phone and more!!!

- Battery life isn't great, but makes up for it in lots of other ways

+ I love the idea of touch screen and slide up giving you options and its nice and easy to use.

- battery life is about a day if you dont use it to browser the net in which case its less i find but as long as you can charge it in the nights its alright

+ Very easy to use and a responsive key pad if you dont wish to use the touch screen.

- The battery life is too low especially when using the touch screen for any length of time.

+ I like the touch screen and have really got use to using it. I like the camera. it plays music well, loud and clean.
i Like the size of the screen and the size of the phone.

- I dnt like the battery.

+ Excellent camera quality

- Scratches easily on casing and battery life not good when vibrate is on

+ Camera - superb picture quality

- Lack of signal - currently loses signal all the time - no network coverage, drops calls and very long winded to make a call. Will probably end up not using the purchased phone and buy something else its that bad.

+ the touch screen texting is brilliant when press the right buttons, the product is very easy to use!!!

- i find the buttons a bit weird to the touch and the battery life a bit short...to too bad though...just wish it was a bit better

+ It is generally a good phone. Everything about it is sufficient and easy to use. It looks very stylish. I would definately recommend this phone to anyone.

- The bad thing about this phone is that the battery life is not very good. When browsing the web, the battery decreases very quickly.

+ camera

- no wifi

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- cant use the internet or email on my phone, tried using facebook and it jus says this browsers isn't good cool enough to support facebook.

+ Looks great. Considering the features is slim and compact. Brilliant camera. Lovely to use.

- Takes time to get used to web browsing.

+ camera, memory , quality , style

- battery life