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December Launched the first dual band mobile phone T6C/O

May Company renamed to Compal Communications, Inc.

June Cash capital increased to 2,000,000,000 NT dollars; Compal Electronics invested in Compal Communications, Inc. with a 50.77% shareholding.

September Launched the smaller and lighter weight mobile phone: T6S, T51

January Launched the T38, the lightest mobile phone at the time

June Signed a cooperation agreement with Motorola

June Passed GPRS Smartphone leading product by Industrial Development Bureau

August Launched the first internal antenna designed phone T31i

October Passed TL9000 certification

December Launched the first ultra thin phone TC3 and the first folder phone F83

January The factory in Taoyuan passed BABT certification

February Launched the first smart phone AR11 in Cannes together with Microsoft

September Launched the first ODM GPRS color phone in the country

March Passed ISO14001 certification

April Passed the Industrial Development Bureau’s audit and applied to the Industrial Development Bureau to be listed in technology business

August Launched the first Motorola camera phone E365

December Listed on TSE

May

Launched Alcatel's first clamshell camera phone OT835

May Compal Communications, Inc. was ranked by Common Wealth magazine as the first

place of top 50 industries for which making the greatest profits as an overall assessment

in 2003

July

Digital Time magazine ranks Compal Communications, Inc. as the top 5 Taiwan techn-ological business among 100 rivals. And Compal is rated fifth as “Rapid developing company” and sixth as “Best company to make a profit”

September

Compal Communications, INC. is honorably awarded for the 12th annual “Industrial Technology Advancement ” of Ministry of Economic Affairs.

October The amount of production in Oct reached 1.3 million. Compal Communications, INC. become the top of Taiwan’s handset industry.

November Inauguration for Compal Communications, (Nan-Jing) Factory