Porsche Design releases new P'9522 mobile phone

[Porsche News]

Car-themed phones are nothing new, but phones designed by Porsche's Design Group are less common. Today Porsche Design announced a second phone in its 9000 series of communications products, the P'9522.

The first Porsche Design Phone, the P'9521, was a flip-style phone, but the P'9522 is a one-piece 'candybar' style unit, with a case machined from a single piece of aluminum. Core features, beyond the elegant and minimalist design, are the 2.8in touchscreen active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display, fingerprint recognition and built-in GPS with navigation functionality.

A five megapixel camera, MP3 player and WiFi access are also built into the quad-band (nearly) global phone. It won't work in Japan or Korea, however, due to incompatibilities with those countries' networks.

 

[Porsche News]

Porsche has kicked out cellphones before: but none so capable as the upcoming P'9522. It's a butch but sweetly-minimal design flip phone, with a rotating screen, and it's just got its FCC pass so it should be on the way here soon. Among its many features, it sadly lacks 3G connectivity, but the rest"”including on-board GPS"”almost make up for that.

- Quad-band GSM, with GPRS and EDGE
- 2.8-inch touchscreen display, 400 x 240 pixels
- 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash
- Internal GPS
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
- Media player functions
- FM radio
- 2GB memory card included in the package
- Talk time: up to 240 minutes
- Stand by time: up to 300 hours
- 115 grams
- 112 x 49 x 12 mmOh, and it does have a fingerprint sensor aboard too, so you can protect your data in the case of casual theft.