Today, Porsche Design and Research In Motion announced the elite new Porsche Design P'9981 smartphone from BlackBerry.

The Porsche Design P'9981 smartphone has been designed using exclusive materials including a forged stainless steel frame, hand-wrapped leather back cover, sculpted QWERTY keyboard, and touch display. This customized Porsche Design P'9981 comes with an exclusive Porsche Design UI and a Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app experience. It also includes premium, exclusive PINs that help easily identify another P'9981 smartphone user.

The Porsche Design P'9981 is built on a performance driven platform that features a 1.2 GHz processor, HD video recording, 24-bit high resolution graphics, and advanced sensors enabling new augmented reality applications. It comes with 8GB of on-board memory, expandable up to 40GB with a micro SD card.



BlackBerry 7, the operating system for the new Porsche Design P'9981, includes a next generation BlackBerry browser and Liquid Graphics technology, which delivers a responsive touch experience with smooth graphics.

The Porsche Design P'9981 also includes built-in support for NFC (Near Field Communications), which will enable many new and exciting capabilities.

The Porsche Design P'9981 smartphone from BlackBerry will be available from Porsche Design stores later this year.