Face The Task Of Getting The Special Edition Nokia N96
A new site for the Nokia N96 surfaced yesterday. Face The Task is going to release 96 individually numbered, special edition Nokia N96 on Friday 11am, CET. The bad: $759 euros. The good: proceeds from all sales of the Nokia N96 bought this way will also be donated to charity. If you can’t afford it, try winning it in their competition.

Face The Task does a good job showing the features of the Nokia N96. There are six main features summarized in text and then shown in video how it is used shortly afterwards. You need to try it out yourself to see what I mean. There’s an incentive to watch all six videos: you can’t enter the competition without viewing them all!

Watch all videos to enter competition.
The limited edition Nokia N96 comes in a decorated ash tree box with unique numbering on the inside cover, silk cover, 8GB microSD, and leaflet about the WWF project to save the red pandas in Nepal.
While I like the charity part of this limited edition Nokia N96, I’m not so sure about the exclusivity of this phone. To my understanding, only the box is numbered… not the phone. Will the color of the phone be at least different from what’s going to come out to the general public? Donors and winners will not even get the phone earlier than anyone in their country.

Kobe Bryant with Limited Edition Nike Hyperdunk
Take a look at what Nike recently did. They released a limited “Back To The Future” Nike Hyperdunk earlier this month. The general colorway comes out later this month, but Nike decided to release a limited amount of the special colorway much earlier than the public release and then even have Kobe Bryant autograph the first 10 sold. Doesn’t that feel much more “special” or “limited” than what Nokia is doing with the Nokia N96?
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Damyan on 10 July 2008:
Erm, both on your shot of the site and on the site itself it says that donors/winners will get the N96 before it’s available in their country. Maybe you misread it? Or maybe it’s me? What time is it where you live?
(It’s 2AM here.)
Anyway, I watched the videos and found them to be quite nice. It’s not exactly a new concept, but it’s well executed, IMO.
Not that I really believe in these competitions and I plan on buying an N96 anyway, but I wouldn’t mind getting one for free.
Best of luck!
Damyan
MaRKz on 10 July 2008:
Wow!
That’s pretty sick. But I highly doubt even the most hardcore N96 fans would be willing to pay in excess of $1,000 for one..
I watched all the videos PAINSTAKINGLY SLOWLY on my POS computer, getting about 1 FPS, and that’s no exaggeration.
That took a LONG time. Then when it came to filling out the form for the competition entry, I could fill out everything EXCEPT for my Name and Email!
I could select the field but couldn’t type in it. WTF
I’m more pissed off than ever now :\
Someone please help.
Nick on 11 July 2008:
@Marks: You’ve gotta wait, that page is a little buggy and it takes a while to load. After a while the text box becomes selectable and you can enter your details. Same thing happened to me too. It’s mainly cos it’s loading the list of countries for you to select. After that;s loaded everything else works.
Dean Williams on 12 July 2008:
Just had an another look on the site and it’s not good… According to the terms and conditions, there are only FIVE N96’s to be WON, the rest I assume go to donors to the Red Panda Appeal
No fair
Also the competition ends on the 1st August…
gaurav jain on 25 July 2008:
wen is d results gonna be announced 4 d competition…
john mortimer on 30 July 2008:
i just got one and they do say when you go to buy it that the phone is special and has thing on and the number
but they did not say this before
i think this help me get the phone
ha ha ha