Sony Ericsson Preparing to Launch Windows Mobile Smartphone

Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC) is reported to have won a contract from Sony Ericsson to manufacture a Windows Mobile based smartphone which is expected to be released in the second half of next year.

Citing a Chinese-language Commercial Times report, the Taiwanese news publication, DigiTimes says that this would be HTC's first order from a tier-one handset vendor.

"Volume shipments of the smartphone - Sony Ericsson's first Windows Mobile-based smartphone and HTC's first ODM orders from a first-tier handset vendor - are expected to top over one million units and to account for 10-20% of HTC's total shipments projected for 2008," said the Chinese newspaper.

Posted to the site on 19th September 2007