Samsung Tocco Ultra

The Samsung Tocco Ultra is the future of mobile phones. This phone is set to top this year's sales and beat all other phones in style, slide, and touch categories. This phone's genius comes from the fact that the phone combines the full touch screen that is taking the world by storm and the regular old 3x4 keypad that we are all used to. This is done by simply having the keypad slide out from underneath the screen! The touch screen is a vivid full 2.8 inch Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) touch screen all kept in a very slim 12.7mm body. The screen itself is gorgeous, clear, and crisp. I love the clarity of the AMOLED screen, and this screen allows us to watch movies and view photos with better clarity, contrast, higher definition, and deeper blacks.

The form of the Samsung Tocco Ultra is what makes it unique. The fact that it has a touch screen and keypad allows users to be able to easily and intuitively scroll through menus, listen to music, browse the internet, and (of course) make calls. The keypad is a great relief for people like me who don't like texting on the touch screens. That was the one thing holding me back from buying the tremendously alluring touch screen phones popping up all over the marketplace today. The upgraded TouchWiz software helps as well. I love how I can go from dragging a widget across the screen to texting on the keypad.

When it comes to style, no one does it like Samsung. The Samsung Tocco Ultra is no different in that sense. The build of the phone is great quality and seems very sturdy, yet it is still sleek and elegant. The addition of the anti-smudge screen is a great one for people with oily hands.

The features on the handset are spectacular. One that is particularly unique is the feature of the "fake call." You record yourself and then when you feel threatened you can turn the volume up and then simulate a call so that the person trying to mug you thinks that someone knows where you are. Another great one is the addition of an 8 megapixel camera with a duel powered LCD flash. This is very high for a phone camera quality, and we thought the Omnia's camera was big with 5 megapixels. If you couple this with the integrated GPS you can actually tag photographs with GPS coordinates to help you organize them and use them on social networking sites. Even the video camera is 30fps. For those web junkies out there you get 7.2 mbps internet access. Way faster than lots of other phones out on the market now. If you were looking for good battery life this has it. 4 hours of non-stop-talk battery life beats out the Samsung Omnia by an hour! The phone only has 80 megabites of internal storage but it is capable of holding up to 16GB.

All in all, I would say the Samsung Tocco Ultra is a spectacular phone that will take the market by storm. I can't wait to get my hands on one. 9.5 out of 10 stars for this phone.