"stuff" : Crosscall’s Trekker-X3 is a properly rugged Android phone

Throw it somewhere hard, cold or wet and it'll still do its duty as an Android Marshmallow smartphone - which is great news for clumsy operators. How hard, cold and wet? Pretty much: sure you could probably kill it with fire or a really, really big rock - but the X3 is otherwise the Bear Grylls of mobiles. Better yet, with a 3500mAh cell it'll probably see you all the way up to the top of the mountain for a 8MP Mont Blanc selfie. In fact, with an IP67 rating, it'll fend off everything from chlorinated water to oil, dust and dirt.


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Android phone lock patterns can be cracked easily – here's how to protect yourself

"Since our threat model is common in day-to-day life, this paper calls for the community to revisit the risks of using Android pattern lock to protect sensitive information." This footage can then be fed into the finger-tracking software to identify a set of possible lock patterns to try. The lock pattern method, which involves tracing an outline across a grid of dots, is used by many to secure their Android phones. Researchers have warned that a popular method for locking Android smartphones can be cracked in just five attempts. The researhers also warned that more complex patterns are actually easier to identify, writing: "We discovered that, in contrast to many people's belief, complex patterns do not offer stronger protection under our attacking scenarios.

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