** Shares of rugged phone maker Sonim Technologies SONM.O
climb 3.6% to 77 cents
** SONM discloses $9-mln customer purchase order for tablet
products designed by the company urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nNFC1cS6bt
** Expects to ship the initial purchase order starting Q3
** SONM expects to fulfill additional orders in late 2022
and through 2023
** Shares down 16.3% so far this year
(Reporting by Arunima Kumar in Bengaluru)
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