Red panda and rare N96 in cahoots

INTERNATIONAL – At Conversations we try to steer clear of marketing campaigns and all that stuff, but having seen the new facethetask.com website I’m compelled to write about it for a couple of reasons. First is that the site is giving you the chance to own a limited edition N96 before it goes on sale in your country – something I’ve not witnessed from Nokia before. Secondly, you’re not ‘buying’ the phone, you are in fact giving a donation to the WWF to help save the endangered red panda – a noble cause, yes, but why an animal and why the red panda?

INTERNATIONAL – What is it that gives a mobile phone identity, sparking many of us to to respond to a device on a personal level? There’s no question that mobiles have established themselves as our closest electronic companions, and sometimes we’re lucky enough to fall into a mutually beneficial relationship (one we connect with mightn’t leave our side for up to three years). It’s a question I recently posed to Joeske Schellen, the designer of the newly released N78 in the UK (watch video interview). But despite some discussion on the form factor of Nseries phones, there was no great epiphany.

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Video: Talking with N96 and N78 creators – part 2

LONDON, UK – In the second part of our interview with N96 designer, Daniel Dhondt, and N78 creator, Joeske Schellen, Nokia’s top industrial designers talk about the role of sustainability in design and how the smallest design details can often be the most significant ones.

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Talking with Nokia N78 and N96 designers – Part 1

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Talking with Nokia N96 and N78 designers – part 2

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Video: Talking design with N96 and N78 creators – Part 1

LONDON, UK – This week we caught up with Daniel Dhondt, designer of the upcoming N96 and Joeske Schellen, designer of the soon-to-launch N78. In the first of this two-part video, we chat about the collaborative process of designing Nokia devices and what goes into giving a phone a sense of identity.

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N95 – the journalists’ gadget of the year

LONDON, England – The Pressies is a brand new annual gadget and technology awards set up by Andrew Lim at CNET. It’s a little bit underground (the awards are set up and run on Facebook) but it’s the participants that make the difference ‚Äì the awards are nominated and voted for by UK tech journalists. And, the Nokia N95 bagged the Gadget of the year in the inaugural 2008 event.