Porsche P9521

	From Amazon Marketplace: ICM Porsche P9521 Compatible Windscreen Cradle Amazon Marketplace £9.95
	Nokia N96 (Vodafone) Vodafone UK £45.00

Pros

Good build quality, Fingerprint reader, Looks fine - a little chunky.

Cons

Expensive (£749 PAYG), Tri-band only, Battery life - 3.5 hours, No 3G.

RATING:

Porsche P9521 Prices

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	DEAL	PRICE
	From Amazon Marketplace: ICM Porsche P9521 Compatible Windscreen Cradle Amazon Marketplace	£9.95
	Nokia N96 (Vodafone) Vodafone UK	£45.00
	Motorola RAZR2 V9 (3) 3 Mobile	£18.00
	Nokia N96 (3) 3 Mobile	£35.00
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	Sony ericsson C905 (Vodafone) Vodafone UK	£313.62
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	Samsung Soul (O2) O2	£15.00
	3 Skypephone S2 (3) 3 Mobile	£18.00
	3 USB E169 Stick Modem White (3) 3 Mobile	£34.78
	3 Skypephone White/Blue (3) 3 Mobile	£18.00
	3 Skypephone White/Blue (3) 3 Mobile	£15.00
	Samsung Tocco (Vodafone) Vodafone UK	£161.81
	ZTE MF627 USB Modem (3) 3 Mobile	£25.00

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SUMMARY:

Luxury flip phone milled from a solid block of aluminium. 3.2 MP camera, fingerprint-sensor and a screen which twists 180 degrees. A very expensive phone.

Porsche P9521 Review

release date: November 2007

colours:

silver

Vroooooom. Buy a Porsche P9521 (P`9521) luxury mobile phone to go with your Porsche luggage, Porsche lighter and Porsche pants. Made from a solid block of aluminium, the chunky square-edged Porsche phone can be bought for a measly £750.

Design

The P`9521 was built by Sagem. You can rotate the screen 180 degrees and close the flip, so that the large Active-matrix OLED (battery saving) screen is on the outside of the phone.

Build quality is good - the Porsche phone housing is milled from a single solid aluminium block. The dark mineral glass screen is scratch resistant. Flip the front open to reveal the keypad. Big black keys.

Top: Connector.

Left: Volume keys, speaker, camera key.

Back: Battery cover, 3.2 MP camera, dual LED.

Right: Speaker.

Front: 65k colour, 1.15-inch screen. Open up to reveal keypad, fingerprint sensor.

Memory card slot: Beneath the battery, so not hot-swappable.

Here's a 6 minute video from BrightTV - a Dutch publication. Dutch lady showing off the Porsche phone in a Porsche showroom. An application for the future - video translation. That would be good.

Porsche telefoon:

Features

3.2 MP Camera: Auto-focus, dual-LED flash, 6x zoom, video capture. Quality? No idea. We didn't test the camera. Not as good as the 3.2 MP cameras offered by the main manufacturers. It's a Sagem phone.

To activate the camera, you must twist the screen 180 degrees, then close the phone again. All the twisting might get annoying after a while. You can then use the side keys (camera key and zoom/volume keys) to operate the camera.

Camera settings include: flash, photo format, photo quality, focus, saving location, timer, click sound, modes, effects and exposure. There's also an album to view your files.

Fingerprint sensor: A small horizontal fingerprint-sensor sits beneath the display. You can use this instead of PIN code access. You can also use the sensor as a touch-sensitive pad - navigate menus and set shortcuts to certain functions.

When you first turn the phone on, you "enroll your fingerprint". Swipe your finger over the sensor several times. Also enter a backup code - should the sensor error or you lend the Porsche phone to someone else.

Auto Orientation: Turn the phone sideways, and the motion sensor changes the screen orientation to landscape view. Magic.

Media Player: Playlists, music controls, visual effects, special FX sounds (3D, reverb, chorus, flanger), equalizer, sound effects, library, tags, repeat, play options, view mode. Sort music files by theme, artist, most played, downloads.

Opera Mini Web browser: Good browser. Shame there's no 3G, only EDGE.

Battery life: 3.5 hours - not very good.

Tri-band: Tri-band only. Quad-band rules.

Summary

Porsche - poser phone. You can buy a Porche phone online or offline at a few stores such as Porsche design shops. Porsche phone (750 pounds) + pants (90 pounds) + 1 doughnut and a coffee (6 pounds) = a great afternoon out down New Bond Street, London. Really.