The LG Pop and the Samsung Tocco Lite are both excellent touchscreen phones, especially if you’re looking for your first entry into this popular market or are on a strict budget. But choosing between them can be tough, so here is our in-depth comparison to help you make your decision:
The Phones.
As we have already mentioned, these are two touchscreen tablet-style mobile phones. The Tocco Lite has three physical keys beneath its screen, a call start and end plus the central back button, where the Pop makes do with a single button offset to the side of the handset. Both feature clear branding above the screen where the speaker can be found too.
Handling the two phones together makes one thing very clear, the LG Pop is just so compact it almost feels like a toy! The measurements speak for themselves, as the Pop is 7mm shorter, 5mm slimmer and nearly 1mm thinner than the Tocco Lite. We are also won over by the Pop’s 87 gram weight – 6 grams less than the Samsung – as it disappears in a bag or pocket, something few mobiles do these days.
The Pop also gains points for looking as good as it does, with the screen taking up almost the entire front panel and the silver accents giving it a clean, modern look. The Samsung Tocco Lite does offer a variety of colours though, allowing more personalisation than the Pop, but it suffers from an older-look design.
The Connection.
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that there isn’t much going on here. Both handsets have a 2G radio with GPRS and EDGE data connections, so don’t expect any 3G speeds around here. Bluetooth is present inside the pair too, with version 2.1 and A2DP support on offer.
Browsing the Internet on the Tocco Lite reveals a WebKit-based browser with Flash support, and it’s really good. The LG experience is nowhere near as good, with the browser feeling a little basic and lacking the Flash support that is so welcome on the Tocco. Where the LG comes back is with its standard widgets, including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace social network integration, plus fun little applications such as a Running Mate and Weight Tracker and a Sound Tuner which plays ambient sound.
The Basics.
Seeing as these are relatively basic phones, the pair perform very well as exactly that – phones. Both have extensive phonebooks, send SMS and MMS and the call quality is excellent, however the Pop does have smart dialling to match a number to an existing contact.
The big difference between the two lies in the user interface. As neither are smartphones, we have the respective manufacturers proprietary operating system overlaid with a touch-based UI. In the case of the Tocco Lite, it’s the familiar TouchWiz system of three homescreens, widgets for things like the clock and the music player, plus an easy to use 3×4 grid of icons leading to more detailed list-based sub-menu. It’s suitably responsive, but it’s no iPhone, so if you’re easily frustrated then take a good long demo with the Tocco Lite before making your mind up.
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