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    Porsche Design BlackBerry P'9981 on sale now, but only at Harrods

    By Andy Boxall | Digital Trends – Fri, Dec 30, 2011

    How fitting that RIM and Porsche Design has chosen one of the world’s most famous luxury department stores, Harrods in London, as the exclusive seller of its luxury BlackBerry P’9981 phone.

    Announced at the tail end of October but with no firm release date attached, the flashy device has now gone on sale there, where it’s priced at a mere £1,275, or a touch under $2,000.

    That’s SIM-free of course, but admittedly the price would probably only be considered “mere” by regular Harrods patrons, as it’s considerably more than the standard Bold 9900 on which it’s based.

    Like its cheaper cousin, the P’9981 has a 1.2Ghz processor, 768MB RAM, a 2.8-inch 640 x 480 resolution touchscreen and a 5-megapixel camera with 720p video recording. It’s separated by that eye-catching design, the brushed metal fascia and the hand-wrapped, all-leather rear panel.

    BlackBerry OS 7 has been treated to a Porsche Design makeover too, as it uses a custom UI and has the popular augmented reality app, Wikitude World Browser, pre-installed.

    Available with either English or Arabic as the standard language, anyone keen to get their hands on this genuinely exclusive BlackBerry will have to make the journey to Harrods — or at least their flunky will anyway — as it’s only available in-store and not online. However, we’re willing to bet they would send one out with your weekly order of Dom Perignon if you asked nicely.

    Phonearena.com spoke to a Harrods representative, who described the P’9981 as “in very high demand and selling fast.”

    This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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    4 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  New York, New York  •  4 mths ago
      Wow. If Harrods sells 100 of them it will double Blackberry's sales!
    • Rob
      Rob  •  4 mths ago
      Who the heck wants a Blackberry these days? Android is the top phone platform to use now. Apple lost it's "cool factor" when they fell behind in technology, and since they don't even make a 4G LTE phone yet, still won't let you use Flash, have much slower processors than the new Android phones, can't change the battery, etc. That's why Android is outselling those behind-the-times iPhones by a wide margin now.
      • Pepe Pepe
        Pepe Pepe 4 mths ago
        The iPhone is so behind ..... that Google hasn't catch up in functionality yet.

        The only people who think that "just good enough" copycat is ahead of the curb is the people who have a desperate need to brag about nothing .... because nothing is what Android has over the competition.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      honestly we have become so tethered to these #$%$ devices i am throwing mine out i am sick and tired of all this crap on whats better or this one parks my car for me or this one does this or that i am going retro getting a #$%$ answering machine and going back to the fact that if i am not home and i dont hear it ring then it becomes less pressing i have been without my phone for a week now and i am so stress free that i am not going to get another one to apple rim samsung and all the celll providers kiss my #$%$ i am done with all of this crap you dole out daily to sum it up at least for me to be free of the electronic leash is just awesome i cant belive how obsessed we have become with a multi function PHONE thats rarely used for calls anymore seriously its a addiction more than a need for it if they start making just a #$%$ phone again then maybe but for now they are not getting my money anymore i wonder how much that will be in a year that i saved i think i will give my berry to my two year old and time how long it takes him to destroy it, he can break anything
    • Richard
      Richard  •  Cleveland, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      At least now you'll have a really super-cool phone to play with whenever BlackBerry's network crashes.
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