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10-11-2007, 11:10 PM
Porsche P9521 preview
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Sagem Porsche phone
Some very exclusive trendy mobile phones were presented during a special event in the Mansion in Amsterdam organized by The Phone House, Europe's largest independent retailer for Mobile Pones. These stylish, limited version design phones proof the maturity of the mobile phone market at which design and life style play an important role besides features and business functionality. The Phone House do adapt to this need by incorporating various Limited Collection cell phones in their assortment. One of these design phones is a clamshell phone from Porsche. The Porsche phone, also known as P'9521, will be available exclusively at The Phone House before Christmas with a retail price of €1200 (Dutch retail price). I was given the opportunity to take a good look at the Porsche phone. The following report should be looked upon as an extensive first impression; a Sagem Porsche P9521 cell phone preview.
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Sagem Porsche clamshell phone - Design
The name Porsche stands for exclusivity and stylish design. The Porsche cell phone lives up to these standards; it is a real eye-catcher. Its weight of 140 grams does not make the P'9521 a lightweight but it makes him feel very solid. The high quality finishing is superb with materials like glass and aluminium used as a base. The tight curves with black glass and the brushed aluminium hinge provide the right finishing touch. The Porsche Design cell phone is not ultra thin but thin and compact enough with its dimensions of 91x48x18.4mm to be carried around in a trouser-pocket.
Porsche cellular Limited Edition - Touch screen
The Sagem P9521 handset is equipped with various multimedia functions and a high-definition touch screen. The monitor is a so-called AM-OLED type and capable of rendering 262.000 colours with a resolution of 320x240 pixels. The 2.2-inch sized screen is a flip-out, tilting screen that offers the Porsche handset surplus functionality and ease of use. The AM-OLED (Active-matrix OLED) screen type delivers the same beautiful performance as the so-called passive-matrix OLED screens, but with one large difference. The AM-OLED monitor slurps up a considerably lesser amount of energy which makes it the perfect monitor for devices at which energy consumption plays a big role.
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Porsche design phone - Digital camera
The multifunctional LCD monitor adds to the use of taking digital pictures at difficult angles. The Porsche P'9521 design phone is equipped with a 3.2 Megapixel image sensor, auto focus and a digital zoom. Quite average specifications I would say, but in practice they turn out to suffice for enjoying mobile photography on consumer level. In other words; it will still not replace the average digital compact camera but the specifications should do greatly for printing acceptable photos. I am describing a preproduction model during this preview, so I can't give you a final conclusion as far as quality etc. is concerned.
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Porsche cell phone - Fingerprint reader
Attentive readers might have noticed the small horizontal bar right below the OLED monitor. This is the so-called fingerprint reader that recognizes and identifies the user of the Porsche P'9521 while at the same time securing the personal data. Besides that the standard PIN code can be replaced by a fingerprint. Since a manual is missing I cannot comprehensively explain the technique that has been used here, but it even seems possible to assign a fingerprint to activate certain functionalities and/or gain accessibility to certain phone numbers thus personalizing your Porsche Design P'9521 to the optimum.
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Sagem Porsche P’9521 - Lithium Ion battery
The Porsche Design battery is carried out in black and is neatly hidden behind a black (plastic) cover. Even the battery belongs to the prototype class and does not reveal its capacity. The Lithium Ion battery needs a three hour charge before it is fully loaded. This results in a talk-time of 3 hours and 30 minutes or 240 hours of standby time. One who wants to enjoy his or her private music library on the MP3 functionality he/she will be able to do so for some 7 hours. The energy capacity of the device does benefit directly from the AM-OLED type of monitor.
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Sagem Porsche P’9521 - MPEG-4 format video
Besides the possibility of capturing still images with a resolution of 3.2 Megapixels, the P'9521 Porsche Design mobile phone is capable of recording videos in MPEG-4 format. Moreover, the P'9521 supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, stereo for reproduction and iMelody 1.2, Midi, Wave, AMR NB [recorder and player] and WB [player] as a format. To be able to listen to the sound a headset would come in handy, but looking at the metal housing I cannot seem to find a 3.5mm headset connection. Solution would be to use the optional Bluetooth headset that will complete your multimedia experience.
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Porsche P’9521 Conclusion
I had the Porsche Design P9521 in the office long enough to get a good impression of this beautiful design handset. Striking to see a mobile phone being so often subject to change as far as design is concerned. The consumer clearly feels the need to distinguish him/herself from the mass with a designer model cell phone. This does not really apply for digital cameras. The mobile phone is a mass product with binding factor the freedom of communicating anywhere and everywhere. And like in daily life one feels the need to distinguish himself/herself whereas the other prefers to blend in with the crowd. The P'9521 will put you in the spotlight, no doubt about that. The tight, stylish design based on aluminium and glass, reveals a certain class. Thanks to The Phone House for enabling this preview.
http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0027/porsche-mobile-phone.jpg
http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0027/porsche-phone.jpg
Sagem Porsche phone
Some very exclusive trendy mobile phones were presented during a special event in the Mansion in Amsterdam organized by The Phone House, Europe's largest independent retailer for Mobile Pones. These stylish, limited version design phones proof the maturity of the mobile phone market at which design and life style play an important role besides features and business functionality. The Phone House do adapt to this need by incorporating various Limited Collection cell phones in their assortment. One of these design phones is a clamshell phone from Porsche. The Porsche phone, also known as P'9521, will be available exclusively at The Phone House before Christmas with a retail price of €1200 (Dutch retail price). I was given the opportunity to take a good look at the Porsche phone. The following report should be looked upon as an extensive first impression; a Sagem Porsche P9521 cell phone preview.
http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0027/porsche.jpg http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0027/porsche_p9521.jpg
Sagem Porsche clamshell phone - Design
The name Porsche stands for exclusivity and stylish design. The Porsche cell phone lives up to these standards; it is a real eye-catcher. Its weight of 140 grams does not make the P'9521 a lightweight but it makes him feel very solid. The high quality finishing is superb with materials like glass and aluminium used as a base. The tight curves with black glass and the brushed aluminium hinge provide the right finishing touch. The Porsche Design cell phone is not ultra thin but thin and compact enough with its dimensions of 91x48x18.4mm to be carried around in a trouser-pocket.
Porsche cellular Limited Edition - Touch screen
The Sagem P9521 handset is equipped with various multimedia functions and a high-definition touch screen. The monitor is a so-called AM-OLED type and capable of rendering 262.000 colours with a resolution of 320x240 pixels. The 2.2-inch sized screen is a flip-out, tilting screen that offers the Porsche handset surplus functionality and ease of use. The AM-OLED (Active-matrix OLED) screen type delivers the same beautiful performance as the so-called passive-matrix OLED screens, but with one large difference. The AM-OLED monitor slurps up a considerably lesser amount of energy which makes it the perfect monitor for devices at which energy consumption plays a big role.
http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0027/porsche-camera.jpg
Porsche design phone - Digital camera
The multifunctional LCD monitor adds to the use of taking digital pictures at difficult angles. The Porsche P'9521 design phone is equipped with a 3.2 Megapixel image sensor, auto focus and a digital zoom. Quite average specifications I would say, but in practice they turn out to suffice for enjoying mobile photography on consumer level. In other words; it will still not replace the average digital compact camera but the specifications should do greatly for printing acceptable photos. I am describing a preproduction model during this preview, so I can't give you a final conclusion as far as quality etc. is concerned.
http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0027/finger-print.jpg
Porsche cell phone - Fingerprint reader
Attentive readers might have noticed the small horizontal bar right below the OLED monitor. This is the so-called fingerprint reader that recognizes and identifies the user of the Porsche P'9521 while at the same time securing the personal data. Besides that the standard PIN code can be replaced by a fingerprint. Since a manual is missing I cannot comprehensively explain the technique that has been used here, but it even seems possible to assign a fingerprint to activate certain functionalities and/or gain accessibility to certain phone numbers thus personalizing your Porsche Design P'9521 to the optimum.
http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0027/phone-battery.jpg
Sagem Porsche P’9521 - Lithium Ion battery
The Porsche Design battery is carried out in black and is neatly hidden behind a black (plastic) cover. Even the battery belongs to the prototype class and does not reveal its capacity. The Lithium Ion battery needs a three hour charge before it is fully loaded. This results in a talk-time of 3 hours and 30 minutes or 240 hours of standby time. One who wants to enjoy his or her private music library on the MP3 functionality he/she will be able to do so for some 7 hours. The energy capacity of the device does benefit directly from the AM-OLED type of monitor.
http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0027/porsche-p9521-phone.jpg
Sagem Porsche P’9521 - MPEG-4 format video
Besides the possibility of capturing still images with a resolution of 3.2 Megapixels, the P'9521 Porsche Design mobile phone is capable of recording videos in MPEG-4 format. Moreover, the P'9521 supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, stereo for reproduction and iMelody 1.2, Midi, Wave, AMR NB [recorder and player] and WB [player] as a format. To be able to listen to the sound a headset would come in handy, but looking at the metal housing I cannot seem to find a 3.5mm headset connection. Solution would be to use the optional Bluetooth headset that will complete your multimedia experience.
http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0027/porsche-limited-collection.jpg http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0027/porsche-design-phone.jpg
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Porsche P’9521 Conclusion
I had the Porsche Design P9521 in the office long enough to get a good impression of this beautiful design handset. Striking to see a mobile phone being so often subject to change as far as design is concerned. The consumer clearly feels the need to distinguish him/herself from the mass with a designer model cell phone. This does not really apply for digital cameras. The mobile phone is a mass product with binding factor the freedom of communicating anywhere and everywhere. And like in daily life one feels the need to distinguish himself/herself whereas the other prefers to blend in with the crowd. The P'9521 will put you in the spotlight, no doubt about that. The tight, stylish design based on aluminium and glass, reveals a certain class. Thanks to The Phone House for enabling this preview.