electricpig.co.uk Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:29
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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...
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itreviews.com Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:29
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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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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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gadgetshow.channel5.com Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:29
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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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pcworld.co.nz Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:29
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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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letsgomobile.org/en Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:29
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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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smh.com.au Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:29
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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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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:
2013-11-09 06:23:29
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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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smarthouse.com.au Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:30
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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:
2013-11-09 06:23:30
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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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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:
2013-11-09 06:23:30
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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:
2013-11-09 06:23:30
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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:
2013-11-09 06:23:31
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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:
2013-11-09 06:23:31
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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:
2013-11-09 06:23:32
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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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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 03:40:33
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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 16:44:41
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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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This Samsung Tocco Ultra review is an unusual one, as the phone has been around for almost a year now, and I normally focus on the latest phones. What caught my attention was the superb range of deals on offer for the Tocco Ultra, and the fact that it...
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engadgetmobile.com Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:29
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Samsung UltraTouch S8300 reviewby Joseph L. Flatley, posted Aug 24th 2009 at 1:30PM Samsung has had quite a sideline in handsets sportin AMOLED displays as of late, and you know what? Were fans -- thats why we were more than happy to get our hands o...
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phonedog.com Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:29
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Known as Tocco Ultra Edition and Player Ultra in some markets, the Ultra Touch brings a beautiful touch screen to a smaller, slider form-factor thats only 12.7 mm thin. And Samsung knows how to show that screen off with wallpaper and a lock screen th...
8MP auto-focus cam with *bright* dual LED flash; 30 FPS wide screen video; lovely, high-contrast 2.8" AMOLED capacitive touch screen at 400 x 240; great phonebook and in-call UI; TouchWiz now has more widgets and a multi-panel home screen; accelerometer...
typing is a serious chore; browsing is WAP; unlocked GSM, but no 3G in US.
Samsungs S8300 isnt going to fulfil your needs if you are big on texts, instant messages, mobile email, and browsing the web on your phone. But if youre looking for a handsome camera phone that can handle diverse lighting environments and shoot gre...
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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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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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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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mobilechoiceuk.com Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:29
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A hero device that deserves its billing. Feature heavy, the Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition excels in all departments. A true classic. Others to consider LG Arena KM900 User opinions(0) Add opinion Read all opinions...
Breathtaking AMOLED display, excellent camera function, and overall, exceptional user experience...
With just 80MB of on-board memory it’s a small mercy that the phone supports memory cards of up to 16GB.Look and Feel...
A hero device that deserves its billing. Feature heavy, the Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition excels in all departments. A true classic...
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mobileblah.com Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:30
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Initially announced at the MWC event this year, the Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 (also known as the Tocco Ultra Edition) is the manufacturer’s latest flagship model. Despite numerous phones were showcased at the expo, the UltraTOUCH definitely managed to a...
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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EVERY woman would want to be seen carrying this baby. The latest Samsung touchscreen phone exudes a premium feel with its brushed metal frame and attractive 2.8-inch screen.With its slim design (it is as thin as a packet of tissue paper), you would nev...
If long talk-time is not a concern, the phone is the perfect companion for a stylish lifestyle. Its vivid display also makes viewing pictures a pleasure...
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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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v3.co.uk Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:30
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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 built-in...
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 Good points Great screen; strong camera; GPS built-in Bad points No standard headphone socket; no wireless networking; widgets not to everyone’s taste...
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Initially announced at the , the Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 (also known as the Tocco Ultra Edition) is the manufacturer’s latest flagship model. Despite numerous phones were showcased at the expo, the UltraTOUCH definitely managed to attract much attenti...
Fashionable appearance, Downloadable widgets, Fast 8megapixel camera...
Lagging interface, Unhandy sliding mechanism, Very poor sound quality of calls...
As a whole, the Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 is definitely a stylish piece of hardware, equipped with advanced features that should help it appear contemporary and relevant. However, we do not like its slow software, which seems to be like years behind. I...
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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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mobileburn.com Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:30
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The Samsung S8300 UltraTOUCH was introduced this past February at the 2009 Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. Since that time, it has gone on sale in some European markets. In the UK it is known as the Tocco Ultra Edition, and in France, the Pl...
Beautiful display, solid design, very good camera...
Mediocre battery life, weak GSM reception, needs a faster CPU...
I have to admit that I am quite enamored with the Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch / Tocco Ultra Edition. It is a beautiful device to hold, look at, and use. It does have a few flaws, though. GSM reception is pretty weak, and the CPU seems to be overtaxed al...
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Last year, Samsung introduced a full touch screen 8 mega pixel camera phone PIXON (M8800). Although it has one of the best functionalities among the line up, it lacks a slide out keypad for text entry. The UltraTouch S8300 fits the bill where it can...
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The Samsung Tocco is a sleek slider/touchscreen combo feature phone that packs a ton of functionality into a small form factor. It’s stylish and nice to use, and the red color will draw attention from those around you (at least it did for me). The phon...
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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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It was just last Saturday (28 March) that Samsung officially made their latest UltraTouch S8300 phone available at all authorized retail stores. Announced at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, in February, the S8300 is the newest flagship e...
Silverstone has a history of making quality products in the power supply, fan, and casing arenas. The Temjin series is probably one of the most well known series in Silverstones lineup of casings, including casings like the recently introduced TJ10 an...
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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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Unveiled at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Ultra Touch S8300 is Samsung's first flagship phone for 2009. While the Ultra series was famously known for its slim phones, the latest breed of Ultra phones has evolved into a more feature...
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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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Known as Samsung S8300 UltraTOUCH or simply Tocco Ultra depending on the market, the latest touch phone by Samsung comes in the slider form factor. Beside the killer looks and slim profile of only 12.7mm, the specs sheet of the Samsung S8300 continues...
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mobile-review.com US Updated:
2013-11-09 06:23:32
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We were content with the S8300’s reception quality, although it wasn’t much different from other phones in this class. The ring tones volume was pretty average, and we even missed some calls when the phone was stuffed in a bag. The vibro alert was not...
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