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Android widgets on the Nokia X feel out of place

BARCELONA, Spain — I popped by the Nokia booth earlier today to try out the new Nokia X range of handsets and came away unimpressed. The first thing I did was to try customising the user interface, and while Nokia has added a Windows Phone-like skin, the UI was decided sub-par in experience. You can add widgets like Android, but …

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YunTab S5 Android phone uses 3D infrared for secure face unlock

BARCELONA, Spain — Everyone knows how easily you can beat Android’s Face Unlock feature with a simple photograph, but it will take a lot more to crack Chinese smartphone maker YunTab’s solution. Found on the company’s $135 S5 Android-powered smartphone (not to be confused with Samsung’s Galaxy S5), the 5.5-inch handset uses two infrared emitters, a secondary infrared camera to …

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