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One of the most popular New Year's Eve resolutions is to be more healthy. Eating better and staying fit is much easier these days thanks to all the available fitness gadgets, such as the Apple Watch and Fitbit activity bands, but even these items don't make exercising fun. Luckily there are a few iOS apps for your iPod touch and iPhone that can help make reaching your New Year's goals a little less boring. Here are five fun health and fitness apps that will keep you on track while keeping you entertained.

AT&T plans to ditch two-year contracts starting in January, according to a leaked internal memo obtained by Engadget. Beginning on January 8, 2016 all new and existing customers will only have two options when buying a new mobile phone from AT&T. Customers can choose to either pay in full or make monthly payments. The new payment options will apply to all mobile phones including smartphones and flip-phones.

Mobile devices, such as smartphones, phablets and fitness trackers, were some of the most popular holiday gifts of 2015, according to Flurry Mobile. The Yahoo-owned analytics firm reported on Monday that device activation and app downloads shattered records with Apple leading the way.

Apple accounted for 49.1 percent of all devices activated during Christmas week. This is a slight decline from last year when Flurry Mobile estimated 51.3 percent of mobile devices activated throughout the holidays belonged to the iPhone-maker. Samsung nabbed 19.8 percent of the Christmas week activations and Nokia, LG and Xiaomi were left fighting over the scraps at 2 percent, 1.7 percent and 1.5 percent, respectively.

It looks like Santa delivered a lot Fitbit tracking devices this Christmas. The free Fitbit iOS app topped Apple’s app chart on Christmas Day, according to QZ. The sudden explosion in Fitbit app downloads suggests that a lot of people were activating a new fitness tracker on December 25th. The Fitbit app has also been one of the most downloaded health and fitness apps in all of December, according to App Annie. This could spell trouble for Apple who was also pushing their own wearable device this Christmas, but it is impossible to tell since neither Apple or Fitbit have publically reported sales.

Beatles fans are getting an early Christmas present this year. The group's music will be available to stream on Apple Music, Google Play Music, Amazon Prime Music and more starting on Christmas Eve at 12:01 am. The official announcement was made Wednesday on thebeatles.com.

Pandora is the only major streaming service not getting the Beatles catalog. Spotify users will be able to stream Beatles songs on the free tier of the service.