Arima Communication, already manufacturing the T100 handset for Sony Ericsson, is expected to ship two new handset models for the vendor in the coming months.
According to sources, Arima will begin shipping the T105 handset around the end of this month or early August. The T105, based on the T100 design, will have some keyboard and handset color changes. Monthly shipments are expected to be 300,000 to 500,000 units.
It will also begin shipments of a new GSM/GPRS clamshell phone, the Z200, in September, with monthly shipments expected to reach 400,000 to 500,000 units by year-end. Sony Ericsson previously announced the launch of a 3G clamshell handset, the Z1010, but it is unknown whom the manufacturer will be or when it will begin sales of that device.
Arima also ships handsets for a number of Chinese handset vendors and contract manufactures the N8 and N530i i-mode phone for NEC. Monthly shipments to NEC are about 300,000 units. It is expected to land a new ODM order from NEC in the second half of the year.
Rumor has it that Arima has teamed up with South Korea-based Bellwave on the development of a CDMA2000 handset, which is scheduled to be launched in September.
Arima stated that it would not be hard for it to ship 10 million handsets this year, nearly triple the 3.5 million units it shipped last year. It shipped 5.3 million handsets during the first six months of this year, and expects to ship 1.5 million handsets each month in the second half.
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