Nokia shuffles design team to improve style
What do you do if you're one of the world's top cellphone makers, but competitors keep eating your lunch when it comes to creating stylish, must-have fashion phones? If you're Nokia, you ditch your design chief and bring in some new blood. And, so, Nokia has bid a not-so-fond farewell to Frank Nuovo, once known as the Calvin Klein of cellphones, who has managed the company's design team for 15 years. In place of the 45-year-old Nuovo will be Alastair Curtis, who currently oversees design for Nokia's low-end handsets. We're not quite sure that's the right direction for the company to take; it sounds a little like Calvin Klein is being replaced by the guy who makes the CK knockoffs for Canal Street vendors. We hope we're wrong, but if Nokia's next phone looks more like the 1110 than the N91, we'll know why.
