Samsung Tocco Lite, Affordable and Cheerful

Samsung Tocco Lite

Samsung introduces Samsung Tocco Lite which is seen as Samsung’s response to its rival, the well known LG Cookie. Although both are very basic touch screen smart phones, they are budget phones that do the job quite well. The Tocco Lite is certainly worth buying if you are looking  for  a simple, easy to use phone with many great features.

The Tocco Lite has many similar features as LG Cookie. Both Tocco Lite and LG Cookie use the same 3 inches screen, with the same high resolution.

However, the Tocco Lite is more advanced with Samsung’s  TouchWiz user interface.This technology has become very popular because it is not only easy to use, but is also completely customizable, with home screens that you can add widgets and applications.

Like LG Cookie, the Tocco Lite is equipped with accelerometer, meaning the screen rotates as you rotate the phone, from portrait to landscape view. The built in QWERTY keyboard is much easier to use in landscape view and you can rapidly type out texts or emails. An individual feature on the Tocco Lite is the addition of real buttons on the bottom for call, send and select, making it even easier to use than basic touch screens.

Other additional features include handwriting recognition and gesture lock. The camera is the same spec as the Cookie’s at 3.2 megapixel and also has digital zoom. Samsung’s Smile Shot feature is also included, which supposedly takes the picture when it senses the subject is smiling. The Tocco Lite comes with Samsung’s built in photo editor and has limited camcorder capability to record basic video.

The music player on the Tocco supports most media files and has an FM radio with RDS. Downloadable MP3 ringtones are also supported, and the audio quality is quite good with a 3D surround effect. The player also includes an equaliser and support for DNSe, setting the Tocco apart a little, as does the higher memory capacity of 16GB with a microSD card.

Although the phone supports Bluetooth and USB connectivity, like LG Cookie there is no 3G or Wi Fi so browsing may be clunky and download speed lacking. However, it’s good to browse on the large high quality screen and there is easy access to RSS feeds, Google Mail, Google Maps and Google Search.

Coming in a choice of pink, black or white, the Tocco Lite is a cute little phone with basic features that can be bought at a affordable price.