How old is the tocco lite

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Now I have the Tocco Lite, an altogether different proposition. The Tocco Lite is a progression in a long line up. And it is affordable. The camera, for example, shoots at just 3. More difficult to swallow for some, perhaps, will be the lack of 3G. Pocketability is actually a key plus point of this handset. At mm x The screen is bright and sharp, and its x pixels offer enough breadth to make it perfectly adequate for space hungry activities like web browsing.

The Tocco Lite is precisely what its name suggests in terms of weight. The physical design is tidy if predictable.

Black is the predominant chassis colour, with a few silver highlights featuring in the three below-screen buttons. These offer Call and End features and a back button.

There is a menu row on the bottom of the touchscreen, which often offers three additional shortcuts too. On the main screen, for example, these take you to the phonebook, numberpad, and the handset main menu. The touchscreen is resistive rather than capacitive, but it proved to be quite responsive to the finger. All of which makes the lack of 3G something of a pain. Yes, I know this is a budget touchscreen mobile, but the very presence of a large screen makes you hanker for the kinds of features that large screens are good at.

Another example is the built-in Google Maps. They just cry out for fast connections. The latter also wants GPS but that is not here either. And nor is Wi-Fi. When it comes to entering text, there are several options. There is an accelerometer in the handset and when you are in the messaging software, you can twist the phone in your hand to get a full QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode.

This is very responsive to use two-thumbed and you can toggle a T9 word recognition system on and off depending on your preference. Instead, there is a numberpad, again with T9 toggle, and some handwriting recognition options which work well with a fingernail as long as you go quite slowly. Samsung implements its good old widgets system on the Tocco Lite. There are three main screens, which you pan between with a finger.

They can all be populated with widgets that you drag onto screen from a sidebar. We found typing and dialling pleasant and quick, and we didn't feel the need to press hard with a fingernail or stylus.

For such an inexpensive phone, the quality of the screen was a very pleasant surprise. With such a good screen, Web browsing and watching videos should be a pleasure. But the Lite has no 3G or Wi-Fi connectivity, so it's slow to get online or download files. We tried out some YouTube videos and they were a tiny, garbled mess because of the extreme compression required. We also tried getting videos on the phone using the USB connection, but the Lite isn't as easy to sync as other Samsung phones we've tried -- our computer struggled to recognise it.

We think your best bet is to invest in a microSD card and load that up with your media instead. The Lite has a proprietary headphone jack and no adaptor, so we weren't able to test its music player with high-quality headphones. It comes with a pair of very basic, plastic earbuds with a hands-free microphone, and, unfortunately, you'll be stuck with them. The 3. We were happy with the snaps taken in good light, however. As long as we used a steady hand, we were able to capture acceptable close-ups and shots from further away.

Colour and exposure are satisfactory, especially considering this phone's low price. The Lite puts a good range of camera settings at your disposal, including a smile-detection and panorama mode. Those modes aren't super-fast, but the smile detection caught our pearly whites perfectly.

There's also a photo editor so that you can adjust, crop and add effects to your snaps. We sometimes found navigating between the different options difficult, because of the obscure menu icons and lack of labels.