BARCELONA—Or you could find yourself paying extra for screen resolution you can’t appreciate and an altered Android interface you don’t need.Those were the ups and downs of smartphones at the Mobile World Congress show here, which has seen almost every company connected with the industry besides Apple show up to show off their next round of hardware, software and services.How strong is that union? Well, it depends…The most positive trend here is the addition of sensors to even low-end Android phones that unlock the device after detecting the user’s fingerprint. Why? Too many people don’t secure their phones well or at all. A study released January by the Pew Research Center found that 28% of Americans don’t use any screen lock.Resting a fingertip on the phone is easier than tapping in a sequence of numbers or tracing a pattern across the screen. If this easy-but-secure access also gets more people to use a password-manager app like LastPass to remember their logins—something the Pew study found only 12% of Americans did—that’s even better.The phones that get the most publicity at MWC may be high-end, high-priced models like LG’s G6, but it’s more interesting to see how capable cheap phones have become. For… Read full this story
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