Mobile Technology

Nokia has started deliveries of its new top-of-the-range model N900, a key product for the world’s top phone maker in its battle against rivals iPhone and Blackberry.

Nokia Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a speech the consort started deliveries of the phone on Tuesday. The N900 model is Nokia’s first phone running the Linux Maemo operating system, which analysts wager as a key for Nokia to regain ground in the coming years. Nokia has kept its overall mart deal stable, close to 40 percent, but it has lost deal among more expensive models to the likes of Apple and RIM.

High-end products are important forNokia because the consort has not only lost mart deal there, but its average selling prices have declined faster than the industry average.

Goldman Sachs has said it expects Nokia ‘s continuance deal — a measure reflecting average prices and underlying mart deal — for phones costing more than $350 to decline to 13 percent this assemblage from 33 percent just two years before.