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A new edition to the Samung Touchscreen family is the Samsung S8300 UltraTOUCH. While it builds on the success of some of the older Samsung touchscreen handsets, the UltraTOUCH gorgeous looking and highly desirable phone. Samsung have put a lot of work into their user friendly user interface called TouchWiz. This allows for 3D effects, gesture controls and also a more improved version of contact details and photos.

Taking photos are also a delight. The 8MP camera gives cyrstal clear images. 8MP is just as good as most digital cameras, and allows you to capture those special moment without having to bring the digital camera around with you all day! At night or in dark conditions, use the LED flash to capture those moments.

For design and construction, the UltraTOUCH is very attractive. Slide the main screen up to reveal a numeric keypad. The keys themselves do feel nice and large while also being comfortable to press. Just below the screen their is the call and end keys and a back button, which, surpisingly brings you back one step on the menu.

The lack of Wi-Fi is probably the only downfall of this really nice phone. Dialing is pretty easy, you have two ways of doing it, either on the numeric keypad of on the touchscreen. However, there is no QWERTY keypad, which is a bit annoying especially if you are trying to text.

All in all folks, it not a bad piece of kit. Nice design, features and easy to use UI. Currently is it available on Vodafone, 3 and O2.

Specs:

• GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• HSDPA 900 / 2100
• 110 x 51.5 x 12.7 mm
• 105 g
• OLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
• Accelerometer sensor
• microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB
• 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
• Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, image stabilization, wide dynamic range
• GPS - with A-GPS support; optional navigation software
• DviX/ XviD/ MPEG4/ H.263/ H.264/ WMV9 player
• MP3/AAC/WMA player
• Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)