Latest Porsche-designed BlackBerry comes in very limited edition

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Latest Porsche-designed BlackBerry comes in very limited edition

23 May 2013 : Just 25 examples of the gold-plated, leather-bound P’9981 Gold smartphone will ever be created, and each one carries a solid gold plaque on its rear, engraved with its serial number and its all-important 2AA prefix code. This code forms part of the handset’s PIN and informs other BlackBerry users that they are communicating with a P’9981 owner.
Is Samsung developing smartphone fingerprint scanners?

23 May 2013 : Samsung could be following Apple’s lead and testing biometric technology for future handsets.

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