The screen on my smartphone is not cracked, but in the video below I show I was able to unlock my phone without touching the screen by using a Logitech K400r keyboard.

THERE'S a clever keyboard hack that all Android phone owners need to know about. It can make it much easier to use your Android phone – and it's free to unlock.

That said, there’s so much you have to do with a working screen before this method can help you out, that I think the keyboard/mouse technique—the “Easy Way”—is probably best.

A new patent was published at the end of last week, which shows how BlackBerry have been working on a touch-sensitive keyboard authentication system. Blackberry have used a touch-sensitive ...