The Aura is a luxurious new mobile phone from Motorola. It’s the first phone ever to feature a circular display and it will be available from December 2008.

Motorola have been out of the limelight for a while but the new Aura is bound to be on few Christmas lists this year. It’s constructed from top quality materials and it has a Swiss-crafted rotational opening mechanism. Features are basic with a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and 2GB internal memory. The 1.5 inch screen is small but has a high resolution, an impressive 480×480 pixels.

With a price tag of more than £1,000 the Motorola Aura will be very exclusive.

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The new all-you-can-eat music service from Nokia has been launched in the UK this week.

So how does it work? You buy a Nokia 5310 music phone on PAYG for £130 and you’re given a 12 month subscription to Nokia’s Comes With Music service. You can browse the Nokia music library on the Internet and download as many tracks as you want to your PC. You can then transfer tracks to your phone using the supplied data cable. The music is DRM protected, which means it can only be played on your computer or on your Comes With Music phone. You can’t copy them to your iPod or burn them to a CD.

If your computer breaks then whatever you already downloaded can be downloaded again to a different computer. If you accidentally delete or lose your music you can download it again for up to two years after your 12 month subscription has ended.

For £130 it’s very good value for money. There are millions of tracks available, mostly mainstream chart music from past to present. The Nokia 5310 is a decent phone too. Available now with a range of seven different colour combinations.

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Now available to order, stock due next week. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 combines a 3 inch wide VGA display and a full QWERTY keyboard within a quality metal-finish body. Running on Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, the XPERIA X1 lets you choose from a dynamic range of activities at anytime and anywhere; from enjoying your favourite entertainment content to working efficiently on-the-move. Access a world of experiences simply by touching the XPERIA panel on the screen. Configure and have your XPERIA panels just the way you want them.

The XPERIA X1 from Sony Ericsson will be the first in a line of devices in the XPERIA range. The XPERIA X1 has a 3 inch touchscreen and optical joystick navigation. A full QWERTY keyboard slides out from the side of the device. It has GPS and Wi-Fi, 3G with HSDPA and HSUPA, plus Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is powered by a 520 MHz CPU with the Qualcomm 7200 chipset and 128MB of RAM. Extra memory can be added using a miscoSD card.

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Free on Orange from £35 per month.

The LG KC910 Renoir is an 8 megapixel cameraphone with a 3 inch touchscreen and an impressive specification. The camera promises excellent photos with a Schneider Kreuznach lens, xenon flash plus face, smile and blink detection. It can record video at up to 120 frames per second and has a TV out socket and slow motion playback.

The LG KC910 renoir is a 3G phone with videocalling. It also has HSDPA, Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth and GPS for geo-tagging your photos with their exact location. There’s a decent organiser with a document viewer supporting PDF, Microsoft Word and Excel files. The advanced media player features Dolby sound, Xvid and DivX video playback.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was instrumental in the development of the Impressionist style of painting. Because of its advanced imaging capabilities, the LG KC910 Renoir was named after the French artist.

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The Sony Ericsson C905 is free and only £30 per month on an 18 month contract, or £40 per month on a 12 month contract. Available to order on O2 or Orange.

Stock is due 24th October. Pre-order and be one of the first to own Sony Ericsson’s first 8 megapixel cameraphone.

The 8 megapixel camera has GPS geotagging, autofocus, face detection and both a xenon flash and a photo flash. It will also be the first non-smartphone from Sony Ericsson with Wi-fi support.

It’s not a small phone though, weighing a hefty 136g and measuring almost 20mm thick. You’ll be more likely to keep it in your bag rather than your pocket.

Full review coming soon.

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Free with up to 8 months half price line rental on a 12 month contract.

The Sony Ericsson W902 is the Walkman derivative of the Sony Ericsson C902. Although classed as a music phone, the W902 still has a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with image stabilisation and photo blogging. It has HSDPA, an FM radio with RDS and it supports stereo Bluetooth. The large 2.2 inch display is 10% bigger than the C902 and it has a built-in accelerometer, turn the W902 on it’s side and the screen will automatically rotate into landscape mode.

The Sony Ericsson W902 lacks the dedicated camera key of the C902 but it gains hardware music keys on the front of the phone. It features the latest Walkman software and all the high end Walkman goodies such as shake control and TrackID.

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