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Comments on: Samsung Tocco SGH-F480 touchscreen phone

Rubbish aerial 

Posted Monday 11th August 2008 15:51 GMT

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I'm now on my 2nd Tocco (heading for my 3rd), and I've seen several other people in forums who've been through 3 or 4. The phone itself is nice enough, and handles most things fine - with the small exception of phone calls. About 40% of my calls drop out within 15 seconds for no apparent reason. This was a problem that was known in the first version of the firmware but was allegedly fixed in the second. Since both my phones have been v2, I'm guessing it's either not fixed properly or Vodafone's custom firmware broke it again. This problem with signal (the strength bars can wander between 1 and 5 while standing in one place) also extends to 3G - 95% of the time the phone will choose GPRS, but if you force it to use 3G it finds a 4 bar signal).

In short, nice phone, very usable but not that reliable as a phone. Pity really...

Tocco is..... 

Posted Monday 11th August 2008 16:45 GMT

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Italian for "I touch" so maybe its not such a bad choice for a touch-phone name after all.

Tocco is.. 

Posted Tuesday 12th August 2008 07:55 GMT

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...pretty damn good actually, does exactly what I want it to do, no dropped calls here and battery life is far better than the three Viewty's I had before.

I may be an apple fan but I cant see the point of getting an iPhone just to be tied into a contract with the devil (O2).

Stuff the tocco 

Posted Tuesday 12th August 2008 10:04 GMT

I've just got my hands on the Omnia and it really is an incredible handset, i'm totally over the moon about it!

RE: Tocco is..... 

Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 10:53 GMT

Happy

Yes, but it also means "silly bordering on crazy", so it's no wonder the handset is nowhere to be found here in Italy.