Hi everyone. So I'm going to continue with our look at the HTC One M8
by taking you through the security features and showing you how to set those up.
Obviously security on any smartphone is really important and no more so here.
So, what we need to do first is come into our security area of
the settings, so if you come into settings, come down to security
and in there we have the screen lock and kid mode and those are the kind of two
primary toggles as it were we're interested in. The screen lock very much for your
personal security,
but the kid mode there so that you can make sure that your children
and family members can only access certain apps
on your device. First let's set-up the screen lock. So to do that we come into the screen
lock
and we've kind of got four options there really. Face unlock, pattern
PIN and password. Now face unlock works
reasonably well in a reasonable number of scenarios. However
it does require good lighting. So we go into set-up
and we just work our way through this and what it will then do is it wants to pop me in
the centre of this circle and it's checking my face at
this point. There we go.
Now you can train this a few different times if you need to after you've set it up to kind of improve
things
and what we'll do then is we'll add a pattern lock.
Pattern pin even. Now the idea behind that is
if for any reason the camera can't detect your face what it will do
is it will give you an option to use
your pattern pin as it were. So
now all we need to do is swipe up and it's going to check my face
and you can see how quick it is. As soon as it sees your face there and it matches-up
it will let you straight in. There's no real delay there. Now there are some other options you
can turn
on with the face unlock. We come back into settings, into security
now can you see here liveness check.
This option here, just underneath improved face matching. This
area here has just changed slightly to give us some more options. If we turn on liveness
check it will require a eye blink
when it's unlocking. Now in our testing we found this to be really unreliable.
Most of the time it simply doesn't even detect that you're blinking. If you're wearing glasses
forget it. It just doesn't work at all. So just be aware that
if you happen to turn that on it isn't the most reliable thing in the
world. So next options we have there
is improving your face matching. So you can run this a few times under different
lighting conditions to help improve the face match,
make the pattern visible. So if you don't want the pattern to be seen on screen
if you are concerned about someone looking over your shoulder you can turn that on
or off in this case. You've got your enabling your lock screen widgets as well.
Now if we come back into screen lock and we just
sign that in, our other option is to set up a pattern
which is what we've just seen already. We can record our pattern on the screen
which we then have to do again when we want to login.
If we come back into here again we can also set up
a pin number, which can be a number of digits so
in this case six.
And also we can use a password as well and you can see that when I want to come in and actually
change any of these options
it's asking me to re-enter the last set-up password system
as it were. So there it's asked me for the pin before I can come in and actually change those, and
likewise I can put in a password. All of these work pretty well
and they are obviously necessary if you want to use any
of the security features for encrypting on the device. You will be
asked to set these up.
Now other options you can have is really
how the lock screen is going to operate when it's in a secure mode
so unlocking music automatically, unlocking for incoming calls,
make your passwords visible if you need that help and also setting up some device administration
options including encrypting all of your details.
Now the next option that we have in here which is very useful for a lot of
people
certainly for people with families is kid mode. This has become very, very popular.
Now what kid mode allows you to do is to set the device into kind of a cut down
interface which only provides access to
child friendly and child safe apps. And you can make sure that only you can control
which apps are going to be accessible or you can have a bit more flexibility there.
Now to actually do that once we've kind of set it up, we initially come in to here we set
up our parents' dashboard
in here which creates our various profiles that you can see here.
The actual app is provided by a company called Zoodles Kid Mode. Now to activate
kid mode all we need to do is come into our app tray,
find kid mode and click. Now
you have to run through an initial set-up process which effectively
means making kid mode kind of a default so that a young person can't
back out of it
thus getting back to all of your apps. And then once you actually have it set-up it will ask you to register
an email address
and then you get access to this system. And in here we have the ability
really to
provide some tools and
entertainment for young people, including video footage,
the games that we might have on here that we want to allow them to play,
drawing applications and
even interactive storybooks which I thought was a really nice little touch
on the part of
HTC to, you know, include an app which actually has this kind of functionality
in there as well.
Really, really nice. You also have the ability to turn on video mail as well for your
child
and various different things that kind of keep your child entertained
but keep them away from any of your more sensitive stuff on your device
or the internet in general.
To actually come back out of that, to actually exit, your child will have to type in
or you will have to type in, your year of birth.
Now obviously you could use a different pin there if you wanted to.
So those are the main security features of the
HTC One. There's not a huge amount of kind of new stuff here as it were, it's all very
much standard stuff we've seen in
Android before. But obviously the addition of the kid mode there which I think is
really. really useful. Thanks for
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