amsung S7070 Diva

The Samsung Diva is a phone that is targeted straight at women. No, it isn't some red-blooded horn dog of a phone, but one that's been designed to cater to the needs of girlies.

The phone itself is compact, measuring 101.0 x 54.8 x 13.4mm, so you'll be able to fling it into your clutch bag with ease. The construction is all plastic, coming in at the affordable end of the market, but the build quality doesn't throw up any surprises.

The user interface is in many ways pure Samsung. With three main screens to flick through with fingersweeps and a side panel for dragging widgets around, anyone who has seen a Samsung handset in recent times will recognise it.

On the front of the phone you'll find a 2.8-inch, 320 x 240 pixel resolution display. That's rather a low resolution and although the user interface fits it without too many dramas, once you start diving out online, you'll find that it isn't a great experience.

In terms of connectivity you don't get much. There is no GPS, 3G or Wi-Fi, so fast browsing online is out of the question. The low resolution screen and cumbersome browser make it an uncomfortable internet experience. You get Bluetooth to hook-up to wireless headphones or speakers.

Text entry is reasonable, but lacks the satisfying speed and reliability you get from more advanced handsets. You are limited to T9 or multi-press to bash out those text messages, with no QWERTY keyboard on offer.

Around the back of the phone is a 3.2-megapixel camera, which gives typically good results, something Samsung seem to have done well with. In good light it will capture reasonable pictures, but there is obvious shutter lag when pressing the button.

Video comes in at a rather lacklustre 320 x 240 pixels, at 15fps and stored as MPEG4. Moving subjects are juddery, but the quality isn't too bad given the low resolution.

Zooming in and out of pages to see their content is fairly easy to achieve. You just hold down on the screen till zoom arrows appear then sweep up to zoom in, down to zoom out.

Internal memory gives you 50MB of space, but a microSD card slot under the back cover will let you expand it up to 8GB. You can dump music directly on to this card, or use Samsung's PC Studio, although we found it only supported Windows XP and Vista, so wouldn't run on our Windows 7 machine.