Arima Communications aims to ship 14-16 million handsets in 2010, up 16-33% from 12 million units for 2009, thanks to orders from LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson, sources at handset component makers quoted an internal estimate of Arima as indicating.
Arima shipped a total of 10.86 million handsets in the first 11 months of 2009 and is expected to ship another one million units in December, the source added. Arima had previously projected to ship 13 million handsets in 2009.
Sony Ericsson, which reduced its orders substantially to Arima for the most part of 2009, has recently placed orders for 2-3 models of its Walkman-series lineup to Arima, noted the sources, indicating that one model will be shipped in April-May 2010 and another touch-enabled model in July-August.
Being a major production partner for LG's feature phones, Arima also aims to land orders for smartphones from the Korea-based handset vendor in 2010, said the sources.
In other news, another Taiwan-based ODM handset maker, Compal Communications, shipped a total of 13.2 million handsets in the first three quarters of 2009 and is expected to ship another 4-4.5 million units in the fourth quarter, noted the sources.
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