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Barcelona will be serving up its sixth Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week and it promises as much variety as the tapas bars that the city is more famed for.
Operating systems, content, devices and even chips will all be on the menu as the Spanish city plays host to more than 50,000 visitors.
The guest list will also be an eclectic mix as mobile old-timers rub shoulders with high-profile executives from outside the sector.
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Google's Eric Schmidt as well Twitter's Dick Costolo and Carol Bartz from Yahoo will all be there.
Operarting System Conflict:
It represents the ongoing collision between the net and mobile communication, as smartphones get ever more popular, smarter and more powerful.
Mobile analysis firm CCS: Insight predicts that smartphones will exceed the number of PCs in the world by 2013.
The operating systems that power them are likely to take centre stage in Barcelona as the battle between Google, Apple and Microsoft gears up.
That battle was made much more interesting by the Nokia, Microsoft partnership announced last week.
It will see Nokia turn to Windows as its primary operating system for smartphones, abandoning the ailing Symbian platform.
But Android is still likely to take the MWC crown as unofficial operating system king - for this year at least.
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