Sendo was created in 1998 by mobile phone experts from
Philips and Motorola. Sendo manage to ship an
SDK, but by December not enough code had been delivered by Microsoft and, without any products to sell, Sendo couldn't raise any money from sales or venture capitalists. Sendo dropped Microsoft and opted to go with Symbian but eventually went bankrupt. Under the deal, if Sendo was declared insolvent "Microsoft would obtain an irrevocable, royalty free licence to use Sendo's Z100 intellectual property, including rights to make, use, or copy the Sendo Smartphone to create other Smartphones and to, most importantly for Microsoft, sublicense those rights to third parties." A product based on the Sendo Z100 was released while Sendo was still solvent by Orange as the
Orange SPV 100, manufactured by
HTC as the
HTC Canary, the first
Windows Mobile smartphone. As a consequence Sendo sued Microsoft in December 2002, alleging it stole proprietary technology and trade secrets and gave these to HTC enabling HTC and itself to launch into the mobile phone market. Microsoft denied the allegations and in February 2003 filed a counter suit alleging breach of contract. A trial was scheduled for early 2005 but an out of court settlement was reached in September 2004, in which there was a "monetary component" and Microsoft giving up its stake of Sendo. In June 2006 Sendo then sued
Orange. In March 2005, Sendo made an objection to the
European Commission regarding
Ericsson and its patent and licence management after being sued. Sendo went into administration in June 2005 and its technology was bought by
Motorola. At the time Motorola took over the developers and their patents, they held 50 valid patents and had 40 waiting for approval. ==Models==