Samsung Diva

Editor's Review of the Diva

Hailing from a line-up of stylish handsets, the Samsung Diva (S7070) resembles the Samsung S8000 Jet and the Samsung S5150 Diva Folder. It is clad in either white or black casing. It has a total weight of 94 grams and full measurements of 101 x 54.8 x 13.4 millimetres.

This mobile phone flaunts a 71.12-millimetre TFT touch screen that displays wallpapers and other images in 16 million colours on 240 x 320 screen resolution. It has a set of MP3 ringtones that may be set as call, message and other alerts. This handset comes with a colourful TouchWiz user interface for a more exciting navigation through the display screen. Users may enjoy an onscreen QWERTY keyboard or a touch screen keypad in making numeric and text inputs. Moreover, a diamond-shaped navigation button right below the touch screen provides ease in accessing mobile applications.

The Samsung Diva (S7070) is a tri-band handset that works on GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900. Users may surf the World Wide Web through this handset's Internet connectivity. It offers a built-in WAP XHTML HTML browser. In addition, users may connect with compatible devices such as laptops, scanners, personal computers, printers and other handset and share files through the microUSB facility. For wireless data transfers, however, this mobile phone comes with Bluetooth with A2DP technology that allows data transfers between devices that are 10 metres apart, at most. This handset is powered by GPRS and EDGE technologies which help speed up Internet downloading and data transfer rates.

This mobile phone lets users enjoy communicating with their friends and family through its SMS or text and MMS and multimedia messaging services. Users may access their e-mail accounts and receive or send e-mail messages through this handset.

The Samsung Diva (S7070) is built to assist busy users in plotting their daily tasks and in keeping them on top of their schedules. It comes with a phone book that keeps a maximum of 1,000 entries, calendar, clock, alarm clock, calculator and vibration alert option. This handset can be relied on to offer ease in taking and making calls through an integrated speaker phone. It also keeps users updated of their missed, answered or calls made through the call log option.

As its fun features, the Samsung Diva (S7070) offers an integrated 3.1-Megapixel camera complete with auto focus for optimum photo outputs. Photo buffs will also enjoy tweaking their pictures using the Photo Editor selection. Users may store their captured memories in this handset's Photo Album section.

Besides taking still pictures, this built-in camera works as a video recording device. Users may also watch footages on MPEG4, H263 and H264 formats right on this mobile phone's display screen.

Users who enjoy listening to their favourite tunes will appreciate the integrated music player. It supports audio files in MP3, eAAC+ and WAV which can be stored in this handset's music storage. Through its FM radio facility users may also enjoy music from their preferred radio stations. This handset's radio station has the RDS feature that offers access to weather and sports news, current events and other information. This mobile phone also supports mobile gaming, as it has pre-installed Java games and allows users to download games from the internet.

The Samsung Diva (S7070) has an internal memory of 40 Megabytes that stores its users' photos, videos, phone book entries and other files. Users may also opt to expand this storage capacity to up to 8 Gigabytes through a microSD memory card. This mobile phone enables users to speak with their friends and family for 10 hours worth of talk time, or an equivalent of 800 hours of standby time.

This mobile phone has drawn flak from unhappy users. According to them, this handset's style driven look works only for ladies as the specific target market. Others also point out that this handset's style-conscious appeal drowns its functionality. Happy users say, however, that the Samsung Diva (S7070)'s touch-optimised camera interface makes every photo shoot a breeze. Others also say that it offers decent photo and video outputs. Its unique look is also a standout, according to satisfied users.