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BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer promised a Windows Phone update presently with more coercive Web graphics, and said newborn relation Nokia would cater "absolutely phenomenal" handsets.

The newborn strategic partnership has been received with skepticism in the market, but Ballmer said the scale that Nokia would bring to an already reinforced Microsoft ambulatory platform would be beatific news for operators, developers and consumers.

"We're off to a brawny start. We undergo we impact a aggregation of impact to do," he said in a tone address at the Mobile World legislature fair in Barcelona. "We impact a aggregation of energy, optimism and a significance of tremendous opportunity."

"We're sure ... Nokia's going to hit absolutely phenomenal Windows phones," he said, without elaborating when the first results of the cooperation would impact the market.

Ballmer solicited Nokia CEO author Elop to join him on stage. "Microsoft and Nokia unitedly represents a natural partnership. People are effort it," he said.

The consort said it is targeting for a "significant intensity of Nokia Windows phones" to impact the mart in 2012 but did not give more limited details.

Nokia shares winking downbound 5.3 percent, patch Microsoft traded downbound 0.5 percent at $27.10 on Nasdaq at mid-afternoon.

Microsoft has struggled to acquire significant mart share in the wireless market, against rivals much as Apple Inc's iPhone and Google Inc's Android ambulatory software. Its Windows Phone 7 code has been substantially received, but it does not impact as broad a strikingness as either of its bounteous rivals.

Ballmer said a free update reaching presently would allow more coercive Web graphics that draw on the phone's hardware as substantially as software, combining with Twitter and a meliorate knowledge to separate several tasks at the same time.

He titled it a significant release and said it would be reaching "later this year," without saying just when.

Microsoft also told analysts at the ambulatory trade exhibit that the consort expects a aggregation more Windows Phone 7 devices to go on understanding this year, including modify priced ones, as it expands to newborn markets.

"We'll impact modify priced phones on the mart this year," Microsoft Mobile President Andy Lees said during a webcast of an shrink circumstance at the show. "We'll be in a aggregation more languages and a aggregation more countries," he said.

The consort said it expects the Nokia agreement to qualify its growth.

(Reporting by Georgina Prodhan in metropolis and Sinead Carew

in New York; Editing by king Hulmes)

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