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How many swipes are required to unlock your Android phone? Is there an upper limit? Also, how many hot spots are there on the screen (I assume it's not a free-hand gesture...)?


The swipie unlock that every Android phone I've seen in practice could be represented as a four digit number (actually less, since there's no zero and no repeats IIRC). The only difference I can see between a swipe and a digit is you hold your thumb down and it looks more futuristic.




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