Porsche and Sagem team up on handset design, doesn't vroom vroom
By Sean Cooper 
posted Sep 6th 2007 6:43AM
posted Sep 6th 2007 6:43AM
Sagem and Porsche's P'9521 handset is set to launch at retail as they announce the boxy thing will start selling in Taiwan this month for a whopping $1800. Featuring quad-band GSM / EDGE, measuring in at a portly 140 gram 91 x 48 x 18.4 mm, and packing a 3 megapixel camera, shows us that they got most of the internals right. But unfortunately, the unlikely design duo has also seen fit to include a fingerprint scanner to activate the camera which begs the question, why? Well, at least they've got ugly well covered, so there's comfort in knowing that the next -- if there is such a thing planned -- can only improve on this first effort.
HELLO it is Porsche not Porshe as the topic line reads!
Bravo! Europe is finally starting to approach Japan in terms of design.
Looks very much like one of those i-mate ultimate phones.
I could see the biometric security on the camera function as useful to a variety of pornographic and espionage purposes where if the handset falls into hands other then it's owners the pictures would be somewhat protected.
For the average user taking pictures of their cats and blurry spy shots for engadget, the biometrics to activate the camera function would probably be more of a nuisance
wow