Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch Expert Reviews

Overview What's good:8MP auto-focus cam with *bright* dual LED flash; 30 FPS wide screen video; lovely, high-contrast 2.8" AMOLED capacitive touch screen at 400 x 240; great phonebook and in-call UI; TouchWiz now has more widgets and a multi-panel ...

Being an Ultra series phone, Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 brings along many of the advantages of other, more narrowly specialized devices in a nice and good-looking body, making it ......

Fashionable appearance, Downloadable widgets, Fast 8-megapixel camera

Lagging interface, Unhandy sliding mechanism, Very poor sound quality of calls

In our view, being a phone is pretty easy these days, especially if you pack a lot of features. This way, stuff like bad voice quality or crackling loudspeaker often gets more easily accepted. However, there is no question of give-and-take in our ...

A short while back we received a shiny new Samsung S8300 in the mail. The S8300, known as the Ultra Touch and Tocco Ultra Edition, is an 8mp cameraphone with an AMOLED touchscreen display. See how it performs in our review, which includes 3 HD videos.

I have to admit that I am quite enamored with the Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch / Tocco Ultra Edition.

Improved F480, mixed with U900, a keyboard, with an elegant desgin, focusing on touch.

An iPhone, a Meizu, or a Prada can be tricky or cool, but I would never start writing an email on any of them. Samsung UltraTouch tries to solve this problem by having a sliding keyboard and still providing full touchscreen functionality. There has ...

While we've gotta wait until Barcelona to see Samsung's Ultra Touch S8300 slider for ourselves, a handful of outlets have already played around with a preview unit, complete with the TouchWiz UI makeover. It's not the slimmest of touch phones, ...

If you ever wondered what Samsung was up to when they had come to the end of the ultra-thin concept, you'll get the answer in the Samsung S8300 UltraTouch.

Wide-VGA screen boasting an 800 x 480 pixels resolution, it would easily have been a screen to beat this spring. Still, it's nice to see Samsung opting for a large screen with AMOLED technology in a mass market phone

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, the specs sheet of the Samsung S8300 continues ...

left off and attempts a huge leap forward

Touchscreen? Slider? We find out

Great build quality and looks, HSDPA, good media file support, GPS, camera surprisingly good, widgets

Sometimes slow to respond, browser experience seems a little bloated, menus not the most intuitive, lacks Wi-Fi

For those who love Samsung and want the reassurance of a keypad and the thrill of a full touch device, then this is a hot little number.

The new touch-based phone from Samsung sports a large AMOLED 2.8 inch screen and a superb 8MP camera.

Its camera is great and the screen looks amazing, but the UltraTouch is not a knockout. It's a weird mix of business looks, average apps and dodgy performance, and we just can't tell who exactly Samsung is trying to sell it to.

Excellent 8-megapixel camera, Slim slider form factor, AMOLED display looks amazing

Laggy interface, Stiff, business look, No 3.5mm headphone socket on the phone, Keypad is cramped and hard to use, Not a smartphone