The Samsung S8300 is a slider phone touted for its communication and entertainment features, known also as the Tocco Ultra Edition this new Samsung phone is available in three colour schemes: Red, Blue and a new Black edition.
Hardware
The Samsung Tocco Ultra comes in electrifying hues like Platinum blue and platinum red. The phone looks sleek due to its high quality plastic material and black metallic frame. The rear of the phone has a different hue from the other parts of the phone. The phone’s touch screen is 2.8 inches wide and since it is AMOLED it display fabulous images. The phone’s touch screen has a scratch proof surface. The screen is capacitive implying that it responds to the heat from the finger rather than pressure. The screen is reasonably responsive to touch.
Communication
The Tocco Ultra Edition has a phone book that can store 2000 entries. This new Samsung phone also has photo call and photo contact features for quick and easy calling of contacts. It has call records feature that can store records of dialed, received and missed calls. The phone supports SMS, voice memo, MMS and E-mail. It also supports T9 or predictive text technology for faster and easier input entry. The Samsung S8300 has an organizer and a document viewer. This document viewer allows you to view documents on the phone in popular formats like MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and PDF files using the Picsel browser.
Camera
The Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition features an 8 Mega Pixel camera that comes with an LED flash as well as other picture enhancing aspects like auto focus, image stabilization and wide dynamic range. The camera’s smile and blink detection ensures that the snaps are taken when the subject is smiling and not when they are blinking. The camera also has geo tagging feature. The image quality is very good. The picture browser comes in handy to browse photographs using finger swipes or using the accelerometer.
Music and video
The Tocco Ultra has a great music player with a user friendly interface. There is an FM radio with RDS and FM recording facility. The speakers provide rich sound. The phone has Bluetooth connectivity and a 3.5mm audio jack to enhance hearing experience.
The Samsung S8300 has a video player that can play DivX video files. The phone gives you the pleasure of watching videos of very high quality. The speakers work effectively for augmenting audio quality. The phone’s massive memory of 80MB which can be increased to 16GB with a micro SD memory card comes in handy for watching large video files without any issues.
The phone supports video recording at high resolution and also has a second video call camera for face to face video calls.
Internet, games and other features
The Samsung S8300 has EDGE and 7.2 Mbps HSDPA technologies for increasing internet speeds but it does not have Wi Fi. The browser puts forth an average performance.
The phone supports games including downloadable games.
The phone has USB port for connectivity to other devices. The phone works on a quad band network covering GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900.
The Samsung S8300 achieves a sound balance between communication and multimedia features.
The Samsung Tocco Ultra has now been joined by the recently released Samsung Tocco Lite which is a mid range phone with a small price tag, for more details please browse our shop – Phones Limited.