About a month before the actual release of the N96 Nseries smartphone, Nokia is offering a limited edition of the handset, for 759 Euros - which means almost $1,200. That's surely expensive, but you won't give this amount of money only in return for a N96.

More exactly, Nokia has initiated a campaign, together with the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), in order to save the endangered red pandas from Nepal. The limited edition of N96 can be obtained exclusively by those who donate 759 Euros for this cause - not by all of them though, but only by users who do it at a specific time.

A special Flash website, called "Face the Task", was created for this campaign. The website gives more detailed info about the red pandas as well as about when exactly the donors are eligible for receiving a special edition of the new smartphone. Also, a contest that offers one special N96 for free can be found on the website, which you can access at this address, but note that, in order to view it in decent conditions, your Internet connection has to be at least a good one.

Those lucky enough to get the special edition of N96 will receive it in a "decorated ash tree box" and with a "unique numbering on the inside cover". Also, this edition is shipped with an 8GB memory card, so its total amount of memory will be of 24GB (since 16GB are already built-in). The "pro red pandas" N96 will only be available in 96 units, hence only 95 of those who donate 759 Euros will receive a smartphone - the other ones will do it just for the pandas.

In case you don't want the limited edition of N96, but just the regular one, you have to wait until August, when Nokia plans to release the handset for retail prices of around 550 Euros ($860).