Taiwan based Commercial Times reported today that HTC has received ODM orders of Windows Mobile based smartphones from Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson will market the new smartphones in the second half of 2008. This will be Sonys Ericsson’s first Windows Mobile-based smartphone and HTC’s first ODM order from such a first class handset vendor. Shipments of the new phone are expected to top over a million, accounting for 10% to 20% of HTC’s gross projected shipments for 2008. HTC stock jumped 4% shortly after the news was announced.
[Via
theunwired]