Vodafone places mid-range handset orders with Foxlink, says paper

Vodafone has signed a cooperation agreement with Foxlink (Cheng Uei Precision Industry) for the purchase of a significant quantity of mid-range handsets, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.The handsets to be manufactured by Foxlink for Vodafone will have multimedia-rich functionality built-in using handset solutions from MediaTek. Shipments are to begin in 2009, said the paper, which also noted that China-based ZTE has also landed