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The device allows owners to unlock it by drawing on the screen, and includes a built-in compass to help with navigation
Owners of the new Google-powered mobile phone will be able to unlock the handset by drawing a secret shape on the screen.
The new ’signature unlocking’ tool was among the features revealed during a sneak preview in California yesterday.
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The device - which is unlocked by drawing a shape only the owner knows on a nine-square grid - will also include a magnifying tool, to make zooming in on web content easier on a small screen, and a mobile version of the game Pac Man.
Demonstrating the device at a developers’ conference in San Francisco, Andy Rubin, who heads up the project at Google, declined to give a release date, but said that the first phones powered by Google’s Android operating system will appear in the second half of the year.
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