Porsche Design Group is pushing further into the mobile phone world with their new P'9522 model. An update on the P'9521, the new phone is now available in Porsche Design Stores, phone shops, and other specialty stores.

The new phone keeps the similar straight shape as its predecessor. It is made from a solid aluminum block, with a piece of scratchproof glass covering the display. Porsche's new phone is black at the front, and brushed aluminum at the back. As opposed to the flip-phone style of the 9521, the 9522 is a single piece, bar-style phone.

It comes with a 2.8-inch touchscreen display which uses an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) to project images. The phone has GPS built in, to allow the phone to be used as a navigation device. Porsche even included a finger print reader, to prevent unauthorized people from accessing the device. A five megapixel camera, with flash, and stereo MP3 player are built in. The quad-band phone can also be used to access WiFi networks.

Unfortunately, the Porsche P'9522 cannot be used in Japan or Korea because of network compatibility issues. The new phone is on sale now.

 

I like the fact that it's a touchscreen but it still has a keypad! What's the OS like? Is it a PDA?

 

I'm about due for a new phone, did they release price???

 

Very slick looking phone! I've never liked flip phones for some reason, and the blackberries are just too bulky so something like this might be just right. I'm guessing the price will be up there though.

 

I dig it...

 

I like it, any reason why this phone would not work with Verizon?

Christian

 

Phone uses Sim card.

 

I have never quite understood the concept of "designer" phones. They are always worse in every way imaginable as far as features and overall quality / functionality, and the only time you get to flaunt it is during the point of a second it takes you to reach into your pocket and put it to your ear. And this one is, frankly, not even that pretty. It looks like an entry level Sony Ericsson.

And there's a very thin line between walking around with a Porsche cellphone and being that 63 year old German tourist wearing a gift-shop Ferrari shirt on the same floor as you during your stay at a miserable two-star hotel on that "used-to-be-hip-in-1993" Greek island.

I swear to God I don't know what I'm on about half the time . . .

 

 

The difference is that you guys get all the really cool and neat phones over in Europe and all we get are the crappy 5+ yr old designs that nobody wanted over on your side of the pond anymore. Then again, you guys get the 5 yr old tech that the Japanese kids get bored with. It's just a vicious circle.