The Porsche Design P'9981.
(Credit: RIM) If you can't quite afford a supercar, you might want to try the Porsche Design P'9981 BlackBerry smartphone instead.
Featuring materials as premium as those found in a Porsche sports car, the phone has a hand-wrapped leather back cover and forged stainless steel finishing. Love it or loathe it, the angular QWERTY keyboard design will definitely turn a few heads.
Under the hood, the P'9981 runs BB 7 OS on a 1.2GHz processor and has NFC capabilities--most of its specs are similar to the Bold 9900. However, the Porsche Design handset has a bespoke UI with specially designed icons and custom Wikitude augmented reality (AR) experience. Wikitude is an app which incorporates AR and location-based search using the phone's built-in compass.
The Porsche Design BlackBerry handset also has an exclusive PIN that starts with 2AA to help identify it to other P'9981 users on BBM. On paper, it seems a lot better than Porsche Design's previous phone.
The phone will only be available at Porsche Design stores later this year. Limited pieces will be sold, priced at an estimated US$2,000, according to Canadian tech site Mobilesyrup.
Between the Tag Heuer Link luxury Android handset and Vertu's phones that come with a 24-hour concierge service, the price tag on this Porsche BlackBerry seems reasonable in comparison.
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