Samsung S5230 Tocco Lite Review

Clearly, this is one of the budget phones of 2009 that is quite cool and savvy in terms of function as well as design.

The Samsung Tocco Lite is not actually an offspring of the senior Tocco, rather, it is a counterattack to LG’s Cookie, which conquered the mobile phone world during the first months of 2009.

Here’s the story, LG joined the trend for touch-screen phones after the iPhone revolution, but made something that would be available for mass consumption, the Cookie. Since they joined the touch-screen mania even before LG’s participation, Samsung figured out a way to respond to the call, they downgraded some of the Tocco’s features, starting with the camera, from 5-megapixel to 3.2-megapixels and they removed the 3G and Wi-Fi capabilities, the same as the LG Cookie.

The best thing about the Tocco Lite is the value for money it represents. Mobile phone reviews say that the Tocco Lite is even better than the Tocco, since it improved on its predecessor’s weak communication problems. In addition, the Tocco Lite has a very hip interface, which rotates as the phone rotates. It also has a virtual QWERTY pad for easier typing, as well as a handwriting recognition application. Like the LG Cookie, the Samsung Tocco Lite is a “fun phone” bombarded with lots and lots of multimedia features, access to more java games, a very good web browser, which makes excellent use of the large screen and access to RSS feeds, Google Mail, Google Search and Google Maps. The battery life extends to 250hours in standby mode.

Most of the reviews mention that the Samsung Tocco Lite is pretty similar to the LG Cookie.