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Porsche P’9522 Mobile Phone Lacks 3G, Has GPS For Navigating Your Porsche
8:42PM Kit Eaton | Porsche has kicked out mobile phones before: but none so capable as the upcoming P’9522. It’s a butch but sweetly-minimal design flip phone, with a rotating screen, and it’s just got its FCC pass so it should be on the way here soon. Among its many features, it sadly lacks 3G connectivity, but the rest—including on-board GPS—almost make up for that. More »
Phones
Sagem Orga Crams AGPS System Aboard SIM Card For Non-GPS Phones
10:06PM Kit Eaton | Sagem Orga, in partnership with BlueSky is targeting the array of mobile phones (and presumably mobile-internet enabled PCs and such) that currently don’t have GPS with this new invention: a SIM card with AGPS aboard. Clever stuff indeed, packing all the chips for a “highly accurate GPS receiver”, wiring and antenna into a thumbnail-sized space. We’ve got to wonder how good its satellite fixes will be with such a small device though, and since it looks like every gadget that comes out has GPS aboard nowadays, adding GPS to a device via its SIM card might just be a temporary stopgap option. But it’ll undeniably have lots of applications when it hits the market. [BGR] More »
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Sagem Porsche P’9521 Hands On (Verdict: Nifty)
4:17AM Charlie White | We’re jealous. The guys at the Brit division of Crave got their greasy paws on that gorgeous Sagem Porsche P’9521 phone we showed you the other day. Making us feel even worse is the fact that they liked it a lot, writing in their dignified-sounding British way, “it’s not just a piece of rubbish with a Porsche logo on it—it is in fact a rather nifty clamshell handset.” One of the pics showed us something we didn’t realise before—you know that highly visible Porsche Design logo on the lid? The numerals on its outside screen are displayed in a similar typeface. That’s a cool detail. Our major complaint about the phone is its outrageous $1634 price. [Crave UK] More »
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