• Phone typeCandy bar
• Height98.4 mm
• Width55 mm
• Depth11.6 mm
• Weight100.6 grams

The original Armani may have pre-dated it, but the Tocco F480 was the model where Samsung came of touchscreen age. Although they both share similar looks, the Armani's innovative but flawed Croix interface has been dumped in favour of the far more user-friendly TouchWiz system, which is also found on the Pixon. In fact, thinking of the Tocco as a Pixon-lite wouldn't be far off the mark, as it gives the 8 megapixel monster a serious run for its money!

Why You Should Buy The Tocco!

• Created using glossy plastic and shiny metal, this 100 gram, 11mm thick handset is a thing of beauty!
• A 5 megapixel camera lens can be found on the rear of the handset.
• It's a 3G handset with 7.2Mbps HSDPA support.
• An FM RDS radio plus a music and video player for entertainment.

The main attraction of the Samsung Tocco has to be its touchscreen. It's a 2.8” screen with a resolution of 240x320 and although that may sound a little small for a touchscreen device, it does the job perfectly well thanks to its brightness and sharp colours. This is the first Samsung to feature the TouchWiz interface, a clever little system which consists of a sidebar on your main screen filled with widgets. Dragging these widgets from the sidebar on to the main screen with your finger activates them, displaying everything from a clock to your music player and making it a quick job to activate your favourite features. The Tocco also has haptic feedback – a vibration when you press the screen – which best of all can be adjusted for sensitivity.

Samsung have overhauled their music player to make it finger-friendly and have included many custom options to ensure it never becomes a frustrating experience trying to listen to the song you want! Much of this is thanks to the widget, which does everything one needs without visiting the full on music player deeper in the menu. The large screen looks good when playing videos, however only a few formats are supported. Unusually, Samsung have given the Tocco just over 200MB of internal memory – which makes a nice change – plus there is a MicroSD card slot for extra storage.

The 5 megapixel camera onboard the Tocco is up to Samsung's usual high standards, taking detailed and colourful snaps. In order to make your pictures look the best they can, there is a variety of software enhancements which may help including shake reduction and face detection. The camera is an autofocus item with an LED flash for those lowlight shots, plus it will shoot video too. Completing the Tocco's feature line-up is an array of connectivity options, with GPRS and EDGE to back up super-fast 3G with HSDPA. Finally, A2DP Bluetooth is on hand for wireless talking and listening.

Summary of the Samsung F480 Tocco.

There is little to fault on the Samsung F480 Tocco, it combines the right features inside a very pocket-friendly casing which looks every bit as stylish as the designer-branded Armani and thanks to the excellent TouchWiz interface and responsive touchscreen, both first time and experienced touchscreen users will be satisfied with its user-friendliness. We love the little Tocco and are positive you will too!

And Now the Tocco has a big brother, the Samsung Tocco Ultra, which features the same Touchwiz User interface, a 2.8" touchscreen, an 8MegaPixel Camera, GPS and 3G connectivity.