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BARCELONA (Reuters) – The piece wedlock of Nokia and Microsoft's smartphone platforms puts code developers at center stage at the annual Mobile World Congress play on weekday in Barcelona.

Last week, Nokia and Microsoft, the global leaders in ambulatory phones and software, declared a wide-ranging alinement which they hope module give them a quantity of antiquity an iPhone killer -- but it is ease regarded as exclusive a thin chance.

"People had expected Nokia to fisticuffs back but the alinement won't be healthy to support Nokia rebound strongly. It module rather boost consolidate the underway trend of Android vendors gaining more mart share," said Park Young-joo, an shrink at Woori Investment & Securities in Seoul.

Apple and Google's Android hit already condemned the broad connector in the lucrative smartphone effort by attracting hordes of developers who attain the diminutive code applications, or apps, that attain smartphones come alive.

Apple's iPhone was praised for its organisation when it launched in 2007, but it was its App Store that transformed the playing by allowing users to change iPhones with easy-to-install games, shopping aids and playing tools.

Total sales from every app stores are expected to manifold this assemblage to $15 billion, investigate concern Gartner said terminal month.

"Most developers are doing Android and Apple; they don't poverty to do anything else, even if they are paying for it. It's feat to be very, rattling difficult for the others," said Magnus Jern, chief chief of ambulatory code concern Golden Gekko.

The open-source Android code platform, unleashed on the mart meet digit eld past by Google, has already stormed to the crowning of the smartphone papers popularity charts, overtaking Nokia's Symbian at the modify of terminal year.

Device makers such as Samsung Electronics, HTC and Sony Ericsson hit embraced it as it offers features and functions they could never hope to develop on their possess as quickly.

On Sunday, Sony Ericsson and Samsung unveiled newborn models running on Android, with Sony Ericsson in a long-awaited move transfer Sony's PlayStation brand to the ambulatory market.

Samsung shares chromatic nearly 4 percent in Seoul on weekday mass the launch of newborn products including an updated Galaxy paper machine and on expectations of boost gains in mart share.

Its stylish Galaxy paper has a large concealment and more processing power than the original. Some analysts see it as the exclusive real competition to Apple's iPad.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is witting to be a multimedia hub for aficionados of games, electronic books and ethnic media, with a 10.1 progress (25.7 centimeter) screen, threefold surround-sound speakers, and front- and rear-facing cameras.

Many manufacturers module be disagreeable to attract code developers at the Mobile World Congress in metropolis with primary events laid on for them.

A consortium of telecom carriers, who hit so far largely unsuccessful to acquire from the apps boom, module also launch their possess app platform, titled WAC, on Monday.

Operators are hoping their indiscriminate store -- from which operators' individualist stores module take noesis -- gives them a scale which is bounteous sufficiency to effort with Apple and Google.

(Additional news by Miyoung Kim, Jungyoun Park and Hyunjoo Jin in Seoul; Editing by Anshuman Daga)

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