Porsche Design P9521

Porsche Design P9521

The Porsche Design phone, the first to come out of the Porsche Design stable. This stable applies itself to building and designing only quality products. Products range across clothing, sports accessories, toys and even washbasin taps. Anyway, most of these products are for the rich-and-famous who get a kick out of throwing dough on quirky possessions. Well, the same rationale works for the Porsche Design Phone as well.

For their first phone, the Porsche Design team has teamed up with Sagem Mobiles. While the brand may not be the most reputed, it still has quite a presence in European markets and also a few decent handsets to its name.

Build & Design:

The Porsche Design P9521 has an awesome build quality. It's crafted from a single block of real aluminum. That makes it a little too heavy for a style statement, but thr

ow it at someone and you have an expensive murder on your hands. The use of dark mineral glass prevents the screen from getting scratched but unfortunately attracts fingerprints. Behind the glass hides an OLED screen, which displays time, alerts, track name, and flashes its model number when in standby.

Features :

There are few unique features in the P9521 apart from the fact that it's a Porsche Design phone.

Fingerprint Scanner

The Fingerprint Scanner is a good idea to keep all your data safe. The only way to bypass the scanner is a code, which you can configure. You get a few tries with the code and the phone locks if you get it wrong. So if someone manages to flick the phone, yo

u know at least your data is safe. You can use the Fingerprint Scanner to either lock your memory card or Message Inbox or Phonebook or all of it, including the entire phone.

Fingerprint Navigation

The most unique thing about the Porsche Design P9521 is its Fingerprint Navigation. This navigation works only when the flip screen of the phone has been twisted. Twisting the screen starts the camera by default. The fingerprint navigator then helps go through all the settings if you need to make any. The interface is simple and swipes of the finger running across or on the line of the scanner were easily detected.

The same goes for controlling browsing and playback in the media player through the fingerprint scanner.

Multimedia :

The multimedia capability of the phone is good. I liked both the sound and the vide

o playback. T

he music quality was good with the stereo headset provided. There are lots of equalizer presets to choose from, and I found the Dance preset to be the best. The head

set has a remote control wherein you can play/pause and go to previous/next tracks. There is a volume control as well. As I mentioned earlier wit

h the auto-rotate screen, it's a pleasure to watch the video without having to go through unnecessary clicks. And playback controlled by the fingerprint navigation made it quite pleasurable

Contents :

The Porsche Design P9521 phone came packed beautifully - in a cardboard briefcase with two boxes, one for the phone and one for accessories. The packaging may seem large for the stuff it contained, but the Porsche Design team ear

ns a plus point for presentation.

Box One :

- Porsche Design P9521

- Stereo Headset with Remote (3.5mm Jack)
- 2GB Memory Card
- SD Card Adaptor
- USB Cable
- Charger
- Software Suite

- User Guide

Box Two :

- Leather Cover
- Porsche Design Bluetooth Headset

- Bluetooth Headset Ear-hook

- Bluetooth Headset Adaptor
- Charger

Conclusion :

The Porsche Design P9521 sells for a mind-boggling Rs 77,000. The price knocked my breath out. Now, having recovered my breath, I remember that it's a Porsche phone for Porsche-type people. The phone is obviously not meant to be seen in every other hand, and therefore, the pricing is bang-on. These people are not interested in volumes of sales. They are more interested in seeing this phone in the hands of the rich and famous. This may not be something that a common man can comprehend logically, because this phone is simply not worth it. To some people, though, the Porsche branding could just nullify everything else.