[Compal Communications to start shipping its new AR11 handset utilizing Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 OS and TI's OMAP710 processor.]

by Chinmei Sung -- "The mobile computing device, retailing for US$500-600, will be available in the first quarter of next year, company president Ray Chen said.

The company has been in talks with a handful of European and US mobile phone service providers and handset vendors, and expects to kick start volume production in January at the soonest with monthly shipments of 3,000 to 4,000 units, Chen said."

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