Following the success of the T-Mobile Shadow which had a custom build T-Mobile UI made by Microsoft, Redmond is planning to the same with Windows Mobile 7 next year. Here’s what I found in a job description on Microsoft’s careers site:
The final responsibility of our group will be working with mobile operators to deliver a unique windows mobile experience that seamlessly integrates the mobile operator’s services (such as voicemail services, video-on-demand services, and navigation services for instance). Microsoft experimented with this back in 2007 with the introduction of the T-Mobile Shadow (). That was a great success and with WM7 we will be expanding this effort to more operators. Because of this we will be working heavily on creating custom user interfaces, so passion around UI and graphics programming is a must.
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