Nowadays, smartphones are more than just compact devices made for calling or chatting with others. They’re portable computers, and at the same time, they’re extensions of our lives. A smartphone holds ...

Some of us may forget important things that may not have of great consequence. However, if you forget how to unlock your phone nowadays, we’re pretty sure that it’s going to cause you headaches, ...

The #GalaxyS5 is one of the older devices that we still continue to support at this time, a testament to its popularity and reliability throughout the years since it was released. Every week, we ...

Smartphones today compete over which can best secure your secrets. They encrypt your data, store the digital keys to unlock themselves on specialized hardware, and even offer fancy biometrics from ...

Often, in our haste—or after setting a new password or pattern—we end up forgetting it. Alternatively, young children at home ...

Locking your Android smartphone with a password, PIN or unlock pattern is your first defense against those who would use it for malicious purposes like stealing your info or sending joke texts to your ...

John is a writer at Pocket-lint. He is passionate about all things technology, and is always keeping up with the latest smartphone and PC releases. John has previously written at MobileSyrup. When ...

Back in the early days of Android, people ooh-ed and aah-ed over every little thing, even the seemingly-innocuous pattern unlock feature. It appears that Google has bigger plans for that lockscreen, ...

One of the treats that immediately set apart the first version of Android from Apple’s iOS software (besides the notification center invoked with a pulldown gesture) is the pattern unlock feature on ...

What's safer? Using a numeric PIN code to unlock your Android smartphone or relying on a finger squiggle? Newly-released research suggests that, at least when someone close by could be looking over ...