| You can get away with a lot if you're beautiful. Such is | | | | an item in a list - you have to scroll to it. Just like the |
| the case with the new Porsche Design P'9522 phone. | | | | phone's automotive namesake, the highlighting bar |
| In some ways, it's a wonderful and capable cellphone, | | | | goes waaaay too fast, almost always passing the |
| but in most others, it's dumber than the gorgeous block | | | | option you want. Really, even the vivid colors on the |
| of aluminum it was machined from. | | | | 2.8-inch, energy-efficient AMOLED screen don't help |
| Looking at the specs, we were hopeful that this | | | | the browser's case. |
| touchscreen-enabled beauty would be one hell of a | | | | Now we know some of you are thinking: "That's fine; I |
| handset. First off, it's packed full of radios: In addition to | | | | don't really surf the web on my phone anyway. All I |
| its quad-band cellular connectivity, it flaunts the Wi-Fi, | | | | need a cellphone for is to keep in touch." Fine, Mr. |
| Bluetooth and GPS that are now pretty much de | | | | Luddite: We hear you, but we hope that "keep in |
| rigeur on a cellular device of this ilk. It also has an FM | | | | touch" doesn't include e-mail - an absent feature that |
| receiver - a nice touch that most companies (except | | | | had us trying to mar the Porsche phone's scratchproof |
| Nokia) choose to omit. We think they shouldn't. | | | | screen with claws of rage. Unfortunately, that screen |
| But what can you do with all those radios? Better | | | | is tough, so the P'9522 will keep on being lauded and |
| hope you're a talker. Even though the phone comes | | | | drooled over - despite our many gripes with it. |
| pre-loaded with the very decent Opera Mini Porsche | | | | WIRED Gorgeous. Touchscreen interface is easy to |
| Phone browser, its 3-G range is limited to the Old | | | | understand, if limited and frustrating. Pre-loaded |
| Country (read: Europe). Even if you're in a Wi-Fi | | | | ringtones include the roaring engines of the 911 GT3 |
| hotspot, you'd be better off mugging some blogger for | | | | and Turbo. 5-megapixel camera has auto-focus and |
| his MacBook than surfing the web using the horribly | | | | captures clean, vivid images. LED flash doubles as a |
| inaccurate touchscreen and knife-thin keys. And that | | | | flashlight. Unlocking the vertu phone with its fingerprint |
| touchscreen luxury phones? It's worse than any other | | | | scanner is very MI5. |
| touch-sensitive display we've ever used. You can't tap | | | | |