Digital Camera Review

January 27, 2007

Samsung’s 7.2-megapixel VLUU i70 brings HSDPA / texting

Filed under: Array — @ 8:01 pm

Yeah, it’d be nice if every swank HSDPA-equipped cameraphone that you felt comfortable texting on boasted a 7.2-megapixel CCD sensor, 3x optical zoom, and a three-inch LCD monitor to hold down the photography end of the spectrum, but unless you happened to throw down for Samsung’s own SCH-B600 and get the bulk of those niceties, you’re currently out of luck. Enter the VLUU i70, which is designed to presumably tackle the niche market of folks who’d rather communicate via text than spoken word and simply have image quality as a slightly higher priority than cellphone capability. The device sports the aforementioned features and also touts up to ISO 1600, 30fps VGA movie mode, Advanced Shake Reduction (ASR), and face recognition technology. Furthermore, you’ll find MP3 / MPEG4 playback support as well as a text viewer, and just in case you didn’t take the hint, the onboard HSDPA allows users to beam photos wherever they please (and hastily, too) right after snapping them. Oddly, there’s no mention of a memory card format, and not so surprisingly, we’re left in the dark regarding price and availability as well, but we don’t envision this here runnin’ ya cheap whenever it does hit shelves.