Porsche P9521 - brick in the wind tunnel

Basic functions

There isn’t much problem with the picture of the internal display, it has good contrast, and the menu is readable, mainly because Porsche Design’s own font is used. It even uses OLED technology which is quite rare at such a resolution Nokia 7900 Prism is the other phone that is also capable of this. The graphics are no big deal, however, in the menu, we can change the wallpaper, but the icons are simple, transparent shapes drawn with a single line. The use of green in selections and scrollbars is a unique solution, but P9521’s visual customizability still approaches zero. Although the design is not by Sagem, but we can see their work in the menu’s logic, mostly when we exit from a submenu without making any changes, as in these cases a window is popped up with the label “cancel” and this upset many of the editors here. Windows opening one from the other are cool, just like the fingerprint reader sitting under the display, as stroking it in the appropriate direction navigates in the menu.

The phonebook’s capacity is practically infinite. This is primarily due to the fact that it hardly takes any space from the internal, dynamic memory (245 entries took 27 KB) and the internal capacity is 22 MB. If we would still be in trouble, the phonebook can be copied on the memory card too, although the phone cannot directly read them from here, they have to be copied back first. A contact can have the usual additional information (name, phone number, email, company, URL, mail address, birthday, comment) and pictures assigned to them are displayed full-screen in case of calls.

Messaging is quite plain, as the device doesn’t support any kind of email, so we have SMS and MMS only. We can store 100 of the first, while the latter one takes space from the previously mentioned internal memory. Text entry is not a real pleasure, as it’s hard to feel the pressure point of the buttons, we have T9 to help.

As for organizer functions, the calendar is a bit complicated, as we change between month, week and day view at the press of a button, but adding a new entry is only possible through the menu. Here we meet the Sagem software again, as besides text entries we can store audio ones too, recorded with the sound recorder, and sorted in many different categories. The calendar has many features, but the alarm clock is very plain, it remembers a single time point, but at least we can choose on what days of the week it should ring. Snooze time is 5 minutes. The calculator has basic functions and besides these there is a countdown timer only, so we have to say bye-bye to the stopwatch, currency converter and world clock.

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