Even with all the Windows Phone 7 news around a New Device Spotted today with leaked Document from Microsoft job it appears the Entertainment and Devices Division is looking for a Hardware Engineer for "next generation of portable entertainment and communication devices". The product is under Windows Phone, but it appears that it doesn't have any cellular phone specs. but the Hardware itself the same as Microsoft ZuneHD. Will that be the ZuneHD2 !?

 

 

Official Announcement from Microsoft Job

"Mechanical Engineer, Senior-Mobile Communications Business (MCB) (732276) Job

Date: Sep 1, 2010

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Job Category: Hardware Engineering

Location: United States, WA, Redmond

Job ID: 732276 25275

Product: Windows Phone

Division: Entertainment & Devices Division

Are you passionate about consumer and entertainment products and technologies? The Mobile Communications business (MCB) and Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB) are leading the company’s digital entertainment strategy and product development. Within MCB, the Portable Entertainment Group is responsible for enabling people to be entertained anywhere, anytime, on state of the art devices. We are the team that shipped the Zune HD, and created all the hardware on that device. We are currently building the next generation of portable entertainment and communication devices, and we need you.

SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER

We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to participate in the development of cutting edge mobile devices, with a passion to push innovative and imaginative solutions that meet the company’s business vision.

Scope of responsibilities / Expectations:

-System level and sub-system design responsibilities in the development of concept explorations and technology investigations

-Create evaluation models and systems to assess performance investigations for various technology components and product features

-Interface across multiple disciplines (e.g. Program management, Industrial design, Hardware, Component Engineering, RF, Reliability, Procurement and Manufacturing) in selection of devices for detailed development

-Manage the detail CAD design direction of chosen concepts for detail development with internal and external resources and provide tactical contribution and technical leadership throughout the conceptual and detail design stages of product development

-Interface directly with sub-system partners for design of and integration of technology components

-Assess risks/feasibility of piece part design / features to meet design expectations for cost and reliability

-Contribute to project planning for development schedules / BOMs to meet all build stages up to production readiness

-Perform and review detailed analysis for tolerance stacks, FEMs and Reliability tests

-Participate in tooling vendor selection and all part qualification

The candidate must be willing and able to travel (domestic and international) to support design and manufacturing activities.

Specific Knowledge / Experience / Skills:

-8 years of experience in electro-mechanical product design with a minimum of 5+ years in the successful development of small form factor consumer electronics

-Experienced in designing for large volume production in a wide range of manufacturing processes (e.g. Die casting, thin wall molding, progressive die stamping/forming, bonding, machining), finishing (IMD/L, plating, painting, PVD, VM)

-Integration and development experience with mechanisms

-Successful experience in meeting reliability requirements for mass production

-Proven experience in applications with some or all of the following technology verticals: Displays, Batteries, Antennas, Acoustics

-Highly proficient in tolerance analysis and review of Finite Element Models

-Proficient 3D Cad Skills (Pro-Engineer WF 4.0 strongly preferred)

-Excellent written and verbal communication

-B.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.S. or PhD in related discipline preferred

Summary:

We’re a very agile, customer-facing team with plenty of growth opportunities. If you are passionate about consumer and entertainment products and technologies, driven to learn, embrace and

implement new technologies in the rapidly evolving world of consumer mobile electronics, and have a successful track record of innovation and product launch, this is the place for you.

SC:DD

Nearest Major Market: Seattle

Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue

Job Segments: CAD, Communications, Drafting, Electronics Engineer, Engineer, Engineering, Hardware Engineer, Interactive Marketing, Management, Manufacturing Engineer, Marketing, Mechanical Engineer, Operations, Procurement, Product Development, Program Manager, Research, RF, Science, Scientific"

As windows phone 7 is on the RTM Statue a New application release for the Developers version of the windows phone 7 we showed you two days ago. the Application is used for checking weather conditions for your current location and All over the world called the "Weather Bug". It came with a Demo Video Below! and it has the following features:

• a Live tile that displays the current temp and supports push updates, interval updates and a badge for alerts
• a Now view with the current temp, a forecast overview for the day, and a 5-day forecast
• a Forecast view that can display the full week, an individual day, or an hourly forecast
• a Map view powered by Bing maps with radar, satellite, and temperature layers. support for static or animated maps
• a Camera view which displays all the local camera images as scrollable thumbnails
• support for multiple locations and a Locations view that provides you with the current weather for all locations on one screen
• support for detailed weather alerts

Apple iPhone is Dead long-live the the Windows phone 7. As Microsoft celebrates Windows phone 7 reaching the RTM, She made it in a very funny way by making a Funeral for iphone and Blackberry devices and then the WP7 team perform the Thriller Dance too. its a very funny move from Microsoft you can watch the Show and the thriller Dance too on the Videos Below. R.I.P iPhone and Blackberry!

 

 

The Acer Liquid Metal Android phone Spotted with images and some leaked specs too. it will run the Android 2.2 Froyo with the Acer Shell 4.0 on top of it. Under the hood there should be an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230-1 processor, 512MB of RAM and 512MB or ROM memory.

 

The Liquid Metal is expected to come with a 16M-color TFT capacitive touchscreen of WVGA resolution measuring 3.6 inches. Also on board there will be support for Bluetooth 3.0 as well as for the Dolby Mobile technology.

 

See Full Liquid Metal Specifications

We Already Many Windows Phones 7 but this one is Asus and have a Full review Video and it may be probably the first (non-Garmin) ASUS phone that runs a Microsoft OS as Asus is not releasing many smartphones and don't have a "Quit" Market share on smartphones business but this Device will be a Big start to Asus on Windows phones. The Device has no Name no Specs no Real EX!

Video Below... Enjoy!

 

Opera today released the improved Opera Mini 5.1 for Windows Mobile. The new update brings better support for high resolution handsets, accelerometer support and the ability to set Opera Mini as the default browser.

 

Opera Mini 5.1 Now available for Windows Mobile 2003 SE, 5.x and 6.x handsets, Opera Mini’s server backbone speeds up browsing while reducing the data transferred to the phone.

 

Opera Mini 5.1 features many compelling updates, including:

• The ability to set Opera Mini as the default browser
• Support for devices with high-resolution (high DPI)
• Improved page layout and font rendering
• Support for auto-rotation
• Advanced configuration support for power users

The new Opera Mini 5.1 for Windows Mobile also adds support for smartphones with high-resolution displays plus page layout and font rendering are both improved. Screen auto-rotation is now supported too and so are some advanced configurations.

 

 

 

 

 

Video Preview Below

We would point out that this was a themed ad served up before the showing of Lawrence of Arabia at London Secret Cinema event. Microsoft UK Youtube channel shoed an Advertisement of the windows phone 7 says: "the Revolution is coming..." Watch Video Below!

 

 

 

Today LG officially introduced their first WP7 running handset Optimus 7. You would think that, being the first company to formally introduce a WP7 handset, the Koreans will have quite a lot to say about it, but obviously this is not the case. All LG gave us was a couple of photos of the device and a few words about its DLNA capabilities.

 

 

They even went as far as to remove the Windows logo from the phone. However the design and the naming leave no doubt that it’s the formerly known as LG Panther device we are looking at. The Optimus 7 will obviously also be able to stream 720p videos directly to your TV and that’s about all the info LG were willing to share.

 

 

At any rate the Optimus 7 should be in the shops before the end of the year, No word on Pricing from LG.

 

Full Optimus 7 Specifications

 

As we get ever closer to the launch of Windows Phone 7 we see more rumours of handsets, videos of them in action, reports of gaming functionality and so on. What we do not get to see a lot of though is the nuts and bolts of the OS itself and how the user will actually, well use the system. Step forth Pocket Now with a video of the SMS functionality in Windows Phone 7.

The video covers everything from receiving texts whilst the screen is off to receiving them whilst it is on to showing off the threaded messaging feature. It might just be our opinion, but Windows Phone 7 is looking pretty damned nice when it comes to SMS. Its a very clean interface that looks pretty slick and it even manages to make the iOS SMS system look a little out of touch. Enough words though, check out the video below to see for yourself.

 

Video Below

 

Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 is ready and released to manufacturing. Now its up to all of the company's partners to integrate the RTM version successfully with their upcoming devices.

As Microsoft reminds us, there is still a lot of work to be done before we see a device running Windows Phone 7 on the market. Microsoft partners, which have been working on the OS integration for quite some time, are now going to update them with the RTM version and continue the process until everything works like a charm.

 

 

 

"Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we are very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone for our internal team  the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7!  While the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with our partners hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of our internal engineering team is largely complete. 

Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released.  We had nearly ten thousand devices running automated tests daily, over a half million hours of active self-hosting use, over three and a half million hours of stress test passes, and eight and a half million hours of fully automated test passes.  We’ve had thousands of independent software vendors and early adopters testing our software and giving us great feedback. We are ready." From the Windows Phone Blog.