Richard Trenholm

iPhone 5 motherboard leaks, components assembled

It’s the mother of all iPhone 5 leaks! Or at least, it’s the motherboard of the new iPhone, leaked. Now we’ve had good look at most of the major components of the new taller iPhone expected later this year. The motherboard is the circuit board that holds the various critical components of a computer or …

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Sony Xperia T is James Bond phone in Skyfall, TX leaks too

Q, meet T. The phones known as the Sony Xperia Hayabusa and Xperia Mint will be renamed as the Xperia TX and Xperia T when they go on sale — and they’re about to fall into the deadly hands of Britain’s top secret agent in the latest James Bond film Skyfall. Know Your Mobile reports that the Xperia Hayabusa, renamed …

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Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire now online on Blinkbox

The latest series of Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire are online on Blinkbox today. Previously only seen on Sky Atlantic, the popular US shows join a line-up of HBO programmes on the film and TV rental service. You can buy individual episodes or the entire first and second seasons of head-lopping fantasyfest Game of Thrones and Martin Scorsese’s sharp-suited …

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Scottish Premier League highlights coming to YouTube

Highlights of the Scottish Premier League are coming to YouTube. Google’s video sharing site has struck a deal to show the best bits of this season’s Saltire-sporting soccer, the first without Rangers. YouTube has non-exclusive rights, so you’ll still be able to see the best bits of those matches on TV or elsewhere: TV channels STV and BBC Scotland, and …

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Sky Movies on YouView as Now TV arrives with 30 days free

Cut-price dish-free Sky channels are now available on YouView — for free. You can watch Sky’s online service Now TV on your YouView set-top box, bringing Sky Movies to your goggle box without coughing up for a Sky subscription. Now TV is free for the first month — so that’s 30 days of movies from Sky’s film channels, long before they …

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iPhone 5 bigger battery in leaked photos

We’ve already got a pretty good idea what the iPhone 5 will look like from all different angles, but now we’ve got a glimpse of the inside too. Photos purporting to show the new iPhone’s innards have leaked ahead of the new phone’s launch. They include another glimpse of the elongated screen, and — if real — reveal a larger …

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iPhone 5 set for extra row of icons on taller home screen

The new iPhone 5 is getting extra leg room on the screen — and filling it with an extra row of apps, it seems. It looks as though the new blower’s home screen will have five rows of apps instead of the current four on the resized screen, which is set to measure 4 inches across and boast a resolution …

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Google Nexus 7 design challenges revealed by Asus

We know building the Google Nexus 7 by Asus was “like torture“, but Asus has given more insight into the design process, revealing how teams of engineers raced to create the £160 tablet in just four months. Google and Asus first met at annual technology trade show CES in January to hash out the plans for a tablet. As the first device …

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Google Nexus D is a curved concept with a kickstand

If you’ve got curves, flaunt ’em, we say. This slick mockup of a possible future Google Nexus phone flaunts its curved screen, as well as a kickstand and loads of other cool features. The concave touchscreen helps the Nexus D concept nestle in the hypothetical hand, while the kickstand lets you set it down to enjoy high-definition movies and TV. The …

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Skyfall and Sky Movies 007 give James Bond his own channel

Fresh from his starring role in the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, secret agent James Bond is getting his own TV channel. The latest espionage thriller Skyfall is heralded in by every Bond film being screened on new channel Sky Movies 007 in October. Live and Let Sky! Or should that be The Sky Who Loved Me? Or maybe For Your …

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