Good shout.

They’re less secure, slower and only work in limited circumstances. I have an S8, the iris scanner is fine if you’re sat at a desk in bright light with it in your hand. But if you’re walking when you try and unlock, or its a bit dark, or you’re holding the thing at an odd angle for some reason, no dice.

Yes, with the pin....

So you can finish reading notifications on the lock screen before it takes you to the home screen.

Its a 3d system, it requires at the very least a 3d object to fool it.

Thanks for the tip, though sadly that only covers Email and Cal as far as I can see, I also need access to OneDrive, Office et al, which seem to be covered by the same Office MDM policy. 

Sorry, faff is a British phrase. A polite way of saying pain in the arse I guess.

Not allowed by my work’s Exchange security protocol.

Which would be fine if you could do that every time, but its impossible to keep the phone oriented in the same way and in the same pocket at all times so that you can unlock it as you pull it out. And those times you’re not holding it in just the right way, you’re forced to wait while your slow meatware thumb moves…

I have an android with a back facing fingerprint reader and totally disagree. With it placed on the back you can’t unlock it when its flat on a desk without picking it up first, which is a faff, and its impossible to use when its in a cradle as you’re driving. I have to unlock it with a pattern, which is far from…

The only way is to not start nibbling. Be the one who always says no. Because, for me anyways, if I eat one, I don’t stop.

The Hudson village quest is really enjoyable, and the village you help create is well worth the effort.

Firstly, they’re competing, not contradictory.

My laptop is strictly for office stuff, with a bit of moderate excel use at the absolute heaviest. So for me power is secondary, though it at least needs enough grunt to run a nice high res monitor when it’s docked at the office.

I love some of these devices in terms of their physical design. But then I realise Id have to use Windows and they get a lot less appealing.

I’d love a Chromebook, but its hard to live without Excel in a management environment. Maybe one day online Excel will catch up with the full fat version. Til then, I can but dream.

Awful tune. None of the crucial manc swagger, just cheesy pie nonsense that sounds like it was fashioned in the worst of the late britpop era.

That looks very average. In fact that looks like Doom 3 with a high res texture pack stuck on it. Maybe it will play better than it appears to from that vid.

On which handset?

Never understood the lack of love for this game. Its the equivalent of a high quality all you can eat buffet. Not the most refined, not the most original, but big, fun & extremely satisfying.