It also pleasingly charges quickly through a USB connection, which some phones struggle to do, so that was a nice option should we ever have forgotten the main charger. Current page: Samsung Tocco Ultra: Organiser and battery life. Gareth has been part of the consumer technology world in a career spanning three decades. He started life as a staff writer on the fledgling TechRadar, and has grown with the site primarily as phones, tablets and wearables editor until becoming Global Editor in Chief in We also like how menus with many options, like the settings menu, also have keyboard shortcuts -- handy if you're keyboard-orientated.
Light and bright The Tocco Ultra sports an 8-megapixel camera and, although there's no xenon flash, it has two insanely bright LED photo lights. Our snapshots were bright and clear, with good white balance, although the automatic exposure was set slightly higher than we'd have liked.
The camera really shines in low-light situations. We found the LED photo lights illuminated the scene well, but we had to be careful to avoid reflections off shiny surfaces.
In these situations, shutter lag proved an issue -- there was a delay of about 2 seconds between pressing the shutter button and taking the photo. In bright light, we detected hardly any shutter delay. The camera lens comes out when you slide the phone open, so you can't take pictures when the phone's closed. Because of this, the Tocco Ultra is long and thin when taking snaps, which we initially found odd, although it's easy to adapt to. You can also geotag your snaps with their locations, thanks to the built-in GPS.
Built-in Google Maps takes advantage of the phone's connectivity but, without multitouch support, we had to use menus to zoom in on maps or Web pages. Thanks to the phone's media player, we certainly didn't get bored. There's even an FM radio to round it all off. In fact, the Tocco Ultra made us feel like Samsung had thought of everything. The box includes a microSD card adaptor, so you can plug the phone's tiny memory card into a card reader and transfer files.
There's also a headphone adaptor so you can use your own cans with the handset's proprietary headphone jack, although it will add about a metre to the length of the cord, which could mean sudden death on the treadmill. Samsung's synchronisation software is shockingly good, despite the fact that it contains some slightly dodgy English -- its name, for example, is Samsung New PC Studio, which sounds like it was written by the Babel Fish translator. But there are a fair few niggles here too, and I expect other handsets to outshine it as the year progresses.
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