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Reaching out to the niche luxury mobile phones market, Motorola with its AURA has certainly hit the extravagant nail-on-the-head.

With it's impressive 62-carat sapphire crystal lens which highlights its circular display, it's safe to say that visually this phone does not disappoint.

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Well, a little later than T-Mobile, but better later than never, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 is now available on the Vodafone network.

Compared to the Bold and Storm, this is your more functional BlackBerry - and as yet, we've not heard of any problems or heard any celebrity rants , so it looks as safe as houses. For your money, you get an improved full QWERTY keyboard, a faster processor (512Mhz) and a larger memory (256MB) compared to the previous Curve, along with a 3.2 megapixel camera and a microSD slot capable of holding a 16GB card. Integrated GPS too and of course, all the email you can eat.

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For far too long videogames and gamers have been tarred with the lazy brush – with the common perception of gaming being that of an overweight young male slouched on the sofa 'pwning' his Xbox Live buddies on Gears of War while stuffing his fat face full of pizza.

No longer! The games industry is quickly cottoning on to the fact that games that keep gamers fit are big business, following the runaway success of Nintendo's Wii Fit last year, not to mention the fact that Wii Sports is now officially the biggest-selling game of all time, even knocking Super Mario Bros. off its perch!

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This week sees one of the biggest events on any self-respecting gadget freaks' calendar – the 42nd annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes place from Jan 8 to 11 in Las Vegas. Thousands of the biggest tech brands (and the as-yet unknown innovators), industry analysts and journalist will all hit the city of notorious excess to get a first look and a hands on with the technologies that will shape the coming year.

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The hangover has just about subsided and we're back in the office. Having all of this time on our hands has got us thinking about our New Year's Resolutions. And we don't mean that dull list of soon-to-be-broken promises about drinking less, reading more Dostoyevsky and not eating chips.

What do we really want from our gadgets this year? What do we think the big tech brands should be delivering us in 2009?

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