Arima Communications is expected to ship a total of 23-25 million handsets in 2012, of which 15-16 million units will be feature phones and the remaining 8-10 million units smartphone models.

Buoyed by orders from clients in the US and Japan, Arima will see its shipments surge to over five million units in the second quarter of 2012 and to 7-8 million units in the third and fourth quarter, the sources estimated.

Arima's shipments of smartphones will start gaining momentum in the second half of the year, covering models built on MediaTek, Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson platforms, the sources indicated.

With Motorola Mobility and Sony Mobile Communications both aiming to ship 30 million smartphones in 2012, Taiwan-based handset ODMs, including Arima, Compal Communications, Foxconn Electronics and Foxconn International Holding (FIH), are all expected to land more windfall orders, commented the sources.