APRIL 2019 PCWorld 9Sony Xperia 1to climb on board—$450, to be precise.
That’s a lot, but we still can’t wait for the first
phone that supports a terabyte of storage
inside and out.
- PASSWORDS MAY SOON
BE A THING OF THE PAST
Security on Android phones gets stronger
with each passing update, but this latest
strengthening doesn’t require a monthly
patch. The FIDO Alliance (go.pcworld.
com/fido) announced this week that
Android phones going all the way back to
Nougat are now FIDO2 certified, meaning
they can use their device’s fingerprint
sensor or FIDO security keys for secure,
password-less access to supported
websites and apps. That means logging
into your favorite sites and service will be
getting a whole lot easier and more secure,
cutting the SMS middleman out of the
picture and eliminating the need to
remember or retrieve complex strings of
characters. More importantly, our phones
will be getting a whole lot more secure,
with stronger one-factor and nearly
impenetrable two-factor authentication. - YOU CAN FINALLY
FIT A 4K DISPLAY IN
YOUR POCKET
Premium smartphone screens have been
really good for a while now, but the best-of-
the-best has remained just about of reach.
Now it’s here: the first 4K display in a
smartphone. Courtesy of Sony, the Xperia 1
(go.pcworld.com/xpr1) has an eye-popping
6.5-inch, 3840x1644-pixel, 21:
CinemaWide OLED display. It offers HDR
remastering, 10-bit tonal gradation, and
support for wide color space ITU-R BT.
as well as DCI-P3 with Illuminant D65. What
all that means is Stranger Things 3 will look
just as good on our phones as it does in our
living rooms.