Samsung's May 2009 treat for the people of the UK is the Samsung Tocco Lite 3" Mobile Phone. What's most striking about this phone is that it is a regular GSM, GPRS and EDGE capable hand-set, but with a touchscreen. :) This 3" TFT screen offers a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels and displays 262k colours. Samsung has implemented the TouchWiz user interface in this monitor as well. This interface which was seen in phones like Samsung UltraTOUCH, Samsung Omnia HD and Samsung Impression, enables easy operation on the screen with the finger tip. There are widgets or shortcuts for accessing popular social networks like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and more. You can view the screen in both landscape as well as portrait modes. The in-built accelerometer of this handheld, will rotate the display according to the orientation of the phone.

This touchscreen phone has an FM radio integrated into it too. When you listen to your favourite songs on this music mobile phone, the Samsung DNSe 2.0 technology, works behind the screens to enhance audio quality. A 3.2 Megapixel camera is also housed in this camera mobile phone. With the face and smile detection technology of this camera, you can be sure of getting professional-like stills. Store your music, photographs and videos either in the 50MB space present inside the cellphone, or in microSD cards. The microSD slot of this device can support cards with a maximum capacity of 8GB. You can transfer files to other devices, with the Bluetooth wireless capability of this phone as well. This capability lets you listen to music with wireless Bluetooth headphones too.

The market shelves will be saying 'hello' to this mobile phone sometime during mid May. The price of this handset is not known yet, but, it is definitely expected to be affordable. Samsung Tocco Lite S5230 Touchscreen Mobile Phone is quite similar in features to the LG Cookie Mobile Phone. With the current mantra of the global economy being "cost cutting", this phone surely seems to fit in well.

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