Part-2 : " Open at Own RISK ! " gets crazier

This post is in continuation to the post made by me on July 1 {click here to see previous post} about the new Nokia promotional campaign "Open at own Risk" which nokia had been spreading through an exclusive website.

I had giving a few screen-shots of the website as it appeared at that time and it seemed to indicate that Nokia may release something nice on the coming Monday, i.e. today.

But shockingly enough, when I opened the website today to find out if there had been any launch, I was greeted by a "Notice of immediate Termination" for the website. I back-checked to see if I had made any typos in the address. No ... not the case. Better check out the site yourself here :
www.openatownrisk.com


What is more insane is that the notice says says that the owner of the website

...will stand before the trial, accused of intent to publish content driving peope insane.

Are you kidding me ??

People are still checking the site for some new developments but in vain {until now}. Maybe by the time you read this blog the site would be updated again but I would certainly try to keep a track of that.

What to say ... great creativity or foolishness on the part of Nokia ...

OK i do agree that the promotional campaign has been an interesting one and can be termed successful. Normally I do not follow these promos or write about them in my blog but this one promised something good and Nokia is quite trustworthy.

But since the release date was today and there has not yet been any change to the site, i hope that Nokia doesn't make a fool of itself. Because after so much of hype if the mobile phone manufacturing Giant fails to please us with something grand then its reputation is truly going to suffer.
Nokia, though, is still silent on what is going on.

Lets optimistically hope for the best ... !!

to be continued ...

P.S. : The original site is still available here in case you missed it : http://www.openatownrisk.com/teaser.swf

Open at Own Risk : New Promo by Nokia

While browsing the net today, I came across this really creepy looking website: http://www.openatownrisk.com

Well you do need some brains to be able to enter the site {you need to solve the simple puzzle that appears on the opening page} and then you will be shown some strange text .

And this is what you get there …

“Hundreds of years ago, scientists, artists and members of Royal families gathered to produce a clip of grand weirdness. A clip stranger and more amazing than anything that had ever been made before.But the clip turned out to o weird! People went mad from seeing it and it was too much for the common man to handle. Thus the clip was locked away, in a mysterious box with four seals.The knowledge of how to break the seals has been passed down from one generation to another, hidden within the technological masterpieces of history.Edison’s light bulb, the Wright Brothers’ airplane and Apollo 11 all held the secret of unlocking the box. A secret that can now be found within Nokia Download service, allowing the public – you, to find the key to break the seals. And see...the weirdest clip. Ever made... ”

Well I didn’t type out all that stuff ; I simply copied the page source … smart :)

OK so what is it all about … well this is actually a promotional site of Nokia … but it doesn’t still tell you about any specific product yet …
well if you look carefully there is a timer that appears occasionally on that site … it actually would count down to zero on Monday … so you can expect a big release by Nokia this Monday ...

By the way the upcoming releases of Nokia include the Nokia N96 expected to release o the 31st of this month. Others in the upcoming release category are include N77 ,N78, 6210, 6220, 6120 and also the N81[8 GB].

However, the biggest expected release is a Nokia touch phone [codenamed TUBE] which is expected to release late this year and is expected to be tough competition for the iPhone ... well that would certainly be amazing but for the time being let see what Nokia has to give us on Monday.