Within a capsule: An entry level touch screen phone is the Samsung Tocco Icon. The Tocco Icon is the upgrade version of the immensely popular Tocco Lite. The phone is a compact one that comes with all those user-friendly and touch screen interface features. The Samsung Tocco Icon comes with excellent incorporation of the twitter, USB connectivity, WI-Fi, Bluetooth, face book, memory card slot and a 3.5mm headphone connection. It has a superb battery. However the 3g facility is lagging in this phone which is compensated with simplicity.

Like the Tocco Lite, the Tocco Icon is of the same size and weight. Toco Lite’s resistive touch screen is substituted by the highly responsive capacitive touch screen and is in amalgamation with individual feature of Touch Wiz 3.0 Interface. The Toco Icon’s screen just like Lite measures 3 inches in size.

However the 3 mega pixel camera of Tocco Icon does not have flash or autofocus. But you can take quick snaps or videos. The phone has an excellent music player system.and FM radio with an RDS feature. The phone’s audio quality with its integrated speakers is somewhat not satisfactory. However you can have a good quality by connecting excellent headphones set through a 3.5mm audio jack.

The onboard memory capacity (30MB) is also not that much impressive. But the other features like the Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0 Wi-Fi connectivity makes you impressive. The phone has an excellent battery with good life.

The salient features comprises of

The Display screen is TFT screen with, 262K colors and is of 240 x 400 pixels (3.0 inches)

The 3.15 megapixel camera is with 2x digital zoom

The Stereo FM radio has RDS features

The 64-voice polyphonic ringtones / MP3 ringtones

Video recording (QVGA 15fps)

The Music player has (MP3/AAC/AAC+/AAC++/WMA formats)

Document editor

Incorporated hands free speakerphone

Memory: 30MB plus MicroSD memory card slot (up to 16GB)

Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, 3.5mm audio jack

Personal organizer functions

It has Quad band GSM

It has WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10, and EDGE

The phone weighs 94g

The phone’s dimensions is of: 108 x 54 x 13 mm

The Battery standby is of 900 hours

It has a talk time of 8.3 hours

Except for the laging of the 3G facility, the Samsung Tocco Icon is with its simplicity, superb battery life and excellent design is a user friendly phone.