Mobile phone giant Nokia said on Tuesday it was delaying the launch of its premium N91 music phone until the first quarter of next year reports Reuters

The Nokia N91 multimedia is optimized for the booming mobile music market. The handset has room for up to 3000 songs on the integrated 4-gigabyte hard disk.

The company said it wanted to ensure that the phone, holding thousands of songs, would work on the widest range of music platforms and be a true "jukebox" mobile phone.

"What we basically decided is that we will postpone it a few weeks, push it out to Q1 and do this Microsoft DRM implementation solidly," Jonas Geust, vice president of music in Nokia's Multimedia division, said in an interview.

"And that's how we want to ensure that we get a great user experience already from launch."