Cable / Telecom News

Designing a better handset

TORONTO – Starting this month, third-year industrial design students at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) will get to work shaping Canada’s booming wireless industry with an innovative new design course, OCAD and Telus announced Wednesday. The OCAD/Telus Handset Project, part of the curriculum of OCAD’s Industrial Design program course “Emerging Technologies” will teach students how to design handsets for wireless phones that will meet the future needs of Canadian mobile users. This collaboration, a first for both OCAD and Telus, will draw upon the students’ and the university’s vast design experience, while educating about the intricacies of...