Taiwan’ popular handset dealer, E-Ten Information Systems and ODM Handset Manufacturer , Arima Communications will sign an agreement to develop the Ericsson Mobile Platform (EMP) powered 3G and 3.5G Smartphones! The very first device made post agreement is X800- a 3.5G Smartphone is all set to hit the market this year end! The X800 is all set to support HSDPA, GPS and Wi-Fi Technologies. There is also a major plan to launch four such devices before the year ends! E-Ten is aiming a total shipping of a whopping 300,000-400,00 units for the year and also outsource the production of 3G and 3.5G models to Arima and still continue outsourcing 2G models to Quanta Computers!

Arima are bound to ship around 400,000 ODM Smartphones this year resulting in 13-15% of the  projected revenues for the company for this fiscal year! A total of 1.78 million handsets were shipped in the last half of the year which was an increment from the 1.66 million shipped during the first half! But when compared to the previous year, the first half shipment of 3.44 million units had fallen down to 61.2% from the earlier year! Arima has shown revenue of NT$6.31 billion (US$ 192 million) in the first half and this indicated a decline of 62.6% from the same period in 2006! Hopefully, the new agreement would improve the shipping woes of Arima! 

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