BlackBerry design chief says 2012 phones might be ‘charming, whimsical and fun’

Todd Wood, RIM’s senior vice chairman of business design has teased next year’s BlackBerry handsets, describing them as “charming, whimsical and fun.” Admittedly, those last two words aren’t closely linked to BB devices of the past, however the manufacture will definitely be at the charm offensive after those service outages last month. In an interview with Pocket-Lint, the Wood explained how this year’s range was influenced by Bellagio in Italy. Here is apparently inspired the way licks — just like the ‘fretted’ keyboard — on phones just like the Bold 9930 and the hardly-announced Bold 9790 . Next year’s models, presumably arriving with a software refresh inside the sort of BBX , might be drawn from ideas at a design workshop held in Malmo, Sweden. While we won’t imagine seeing a Nordic wood-encased Bold, nor the disappearance of RIM’s talismanic keyboard , hopefully the change in design spotlight will bring a little texture and spice to BB’s next roll of the smartphone dice.

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