Amazon says that it wants customers to be able to use facial and iris scanning features, which the lock screen ads get in the way of.
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Huawei Mate 10 has a smart text color selector on lock screen… which is 2:1
A preview clip of the interface shows implies that the main model Mate 10 will get a 1080 x 2160 display. Does this settle the score on screens?
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Anyone can now get Cortana assistance ‘on’ Android lock screens and ‘above’ the lock
Microsoft's Cortana works even better and more naturally on Android devices after the latest app update, with extensive lock screen support.
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Some Android Lollipop lock screens can be hacked through
Lollipop’s troubles have been made very visible by the tech media to the national media. In the second case, it was with Android 5.0’s Stagefright vulnerabilities that led to the pouring of vows to step up security updates. And while the move to
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How do you secure your smartphone? (Poll)
By their very nature, smartphones have always been fairly private devices. The conversations we have, the pictures we take, and the other various types of data we store on our smartphones are likely very private and often very sensitive.While I don’t personally keep anything compromising – pictures, text, or otherwise – on my smartphone, private conversations I wouldn’t want other people to read abound. My smartphone also has access to my bank account, my LastPass account, which holds the passwords to all my online accounts, and cloud access to all my photos, documents, and ...
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C Lock Screen Makes Your Android Lock Screen Awesome! (Video)
Android Jelly Bean has some pretty sweet lock-screen widgets built-in, but they’re limited to just one widget per panel. If you want to control your music, see how many missed calls you have, what your battery status is, or check the weather forecast you’ve either got to have a lot of lock-screen widgets spread across a lot of panels — which sort of defeats the purpose — or you need a lock screen widget that packages all these into one. Of course, another option is just to replace your lock screen with a new one.
The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast, Episode 031
Rarely has the “lull” between trade shows given us so much to talk about. We kicked off the week with an exciting announcement welcoming two new members to the Pocketnow team, and since then we’ve barely been able to keep news, editorials, and videos on the front page long enough to read them. This feed is on fire. From ever-strengthening rumors about the HTC M7 and Samsung Galaxy S IV, to interviews with newcomers like Jolla, to new looks at old friends with BlackBerry 10, to ...