Samsung S8300 UltraTOUCH

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, 8 megapixel camera the specs sheet of the Samsung S8300 continues with a 2.8" capacitive OLED touchscreen, and a GPS-receiver with Route 66 navigation.

Construction

Upon opening the packaging, I was quite impressed with what I saw. The S8300 is a nicely styled phone with metal and strong plastic components.

Picking it up in your hand and feeling the weight of it gives you the impression that it is of sturdy construction.

The slide mechanism is flawlessly smooth and precise. The battery cover is well made. And opening it just requires you to pop it out instead of forcing you to pry it open.

Upon turning on the phone and viewing the 2.8in OLED screen light up, I was impressed with the quality of the display.

Colours were bright and well represented. The screen is also supposedly covered with tempered glass to make it scratch and glare resistant.

Well, I didn’t want to do the “keys-in-pocket-with-phone” test, otherwise the nice folks at Samsung would have my head on a stake for messing up their review unit.

As for glare resistance, the screen still suffers from legibility problems under bright sunlight.

It seems that all handphone manufacturers have yet to tackle this problem successfully be it TFT or OLED screens.

The touchscreen response for a capacitive display is a mixed bag. It may be because I have not adapted from a phone with a resistive display.

Rather than just pressing with the tip of your fingers or even your fingernail, you have to use your whole fingertip (read: Skin contact) to get the screen to work.

This may be great in most situations but when the button is tiny or even a tad narrow, you will tend to miss it and will be forced to tap a few times to hit the sweet spot to activate the button.

It is frustrating at times, but let’s hope Samsung can optimise the touchscreen with firmware upgrades.

source: http://www.okephones.com/

Samsung i900 Omnia

Specification :

General 2G Network


GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network

HSDPA 2100

HSDPA 850 / 1900 - American version

Dimensions 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm

Weight 122 g

Display Type TFT touchscreen, 256K colors (65K effective)

Size 240 x 400 pixels, 3.2 inches

- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Handwriting recognition

Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3

Customization

Download

Vibration Yes

Memory

Phonebook

Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records Practically unlimited

Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB

- 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
- 624MHz Marvell PXA312 processor
- 8 GB/16 GB internal memory

Data GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

EDGE Class 12

3G

HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps

WLAN

Wi-Fi 802.11b/g

Bluetooth


Yes, v2.0 with A2DP

USB Yes, v2.0

Features

OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging

Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds

Games Yes + Java downloadable

Colors Modern Black

Camera 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, image stabiliser, video, flash; secondary videocall camera

- Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support
- Java MIDP 2.0
- FM Radio with RDS
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/OGG/AMR player
- DivX/XviD/WMV/MP4 player
- TV Out
- Voice memo
- Built-in handsfree

Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1440 mAh

Stand-by Up to 500 h

Talk time Up to 5 h 50 min