no. it uses data rather than voice. if youve ever made a FT call youve probably heard it has higher fidelity than the carrier voice lines.
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no. it uses data rather than voice. if youve ever made a FT call youve probably heard it has higher fidelity than the carrier voice lines.
id take a location based lock over a fingerprint sensor tbh. like keep it unlocked once u enter ur house or connect to a known wifi or something.
couldnt the thief easily fake it? your phone is usually covered in fingerprints (i may watch too much CSI)
couldnt the thief easily fake it? your phone is usually covered in fingerprints (i may watch too much CSI)
How would these sites survive if we didn't have leaks? And if people hate leaks why would they visit a site like this in the first place?
Seriously, don't quite get the excitmen about facetime audio only! Surely I may be missing something! Voice calls are made thorugh all sorts of Voip apps, not to mention that many people have more then they can use or unlimited national voice minutes on their pacage. Well, at least here in UK.
Only... using wifi instead of "minutes" of your plan, also circumventing international call fees. Is this really that hard to understand?
I don't want it now, I want it on the announcement date. I have to get an announcement and then have to wait for it.
And why exactly are you on rumor sites if leaks/rumors bother you? Judging by your profile picture, I'm guessing you don't think Cook is doing a good job about leaks. Well, if there weren't so many people visiting leak sites (yourself included), then there wouldn't be so many of them. Its kinda hard to contain information when you have a population of half million people on the other side of the world assembling your product. However, he seems to be doing a pretty good job of secrecy for projects that ARE actually under his own eyes inside the Apple campus.
I only put a passcode on when I'm traveling on the bus to questionable areas (Everett Station, downtown Seattle, the occasional trip to Portland, etc.)
Otherwise I keep my phone in my pocket at work, an I can't be bothered with a passcode at home.
Thats not how biometrics works. Things in real life are different than the movies.
it's possible to retrieve someone's fingerprint and use it for biometrics, but it's not something easy to do.
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Will AAPL sell my fingerprint data linked to my identity to other company, PRISM, NSA, ETC. so they can identify me and trace me anytime i touch any of the camouflaged fingerprint readers they will hide all over door knobs, benches, taps, politician handshakes and toilet flushes ?
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Will AAPL sell my fingerprint data linked to my identity to other company, PRISM, NSA, ETC. so they can identify me and trace me anytime i touch any of the camouflaged fingerprint readers they will hide all over door knobs, benches, taps, politician handshakes and toilet flushes ?
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Do you get the four finger pinch glitch where you just get your wallpaper and are forced to reboot? Happens like twice a day for me. And rebooting takes close to 4 minutes :/
I'd imagine this is exactly Apple's idea. They are going to use the fingerprint sensor to identify you, FaceTime to see and listen to what you do, and GPS to see where you are. Oh, they are also going to sell that information to Santa Clause so he can more easily see whether you've been naughty or nice.
But but but but but but but but... In the movies they did this one thing and then they got into the top secret facility!
I honestly expect a thief to have to cut your hand off and use that to get into your phone if they really wanted it THAT bad.
The benefit would be that you don't have to install/sign up for yet another VoIP app, basically. My family already uses FaceTime instead of normal calling, for the most part. FT audio would be more useful for calling relatives overseas - who we FT with anyway. But for times where you don't want a picture, well, there wasn't really a good way to do it.
It's mainly for the lazy. That doesn't mean I uninstall talkatone, skype, viber, etc. What it means is I don't need to get X, Y, or Z to install skype, viber, talkatone, etc on their iPhone.
FINALLY!!! Also, what ever happened to the home button being convex like that other rumor?
New on iPhone but this tech was previously available from WinMobile 5.1 devices, and some Androids (Motorola Atrix).
I Don't know why Android did't support it yet, worked well on moto Atrix and was very useful, I hope a much better OS integration on iOS7 with this tech would be great.
Also the fingerprint scanner maybe used to support "home button gestures", useful to back/forward Up/down Commands on different app contexts, and Precise Pointer control on the web browser.
Also the iPhone 5S/Ipads may include the same touchscreen sensor on the Galaxy S4 (which allows you to Hover w/o touch).
An Stronger and more reliable authentication it's mandatory to use some device as payment medium.
I Don't know why Android did't support it yet, worked well on moto Atrix and was very useful, I hope a much better OS integration on iOS7 with this tech would be great.
Also the fingerprint scanner maybe used to support "home button gestures", useful to back/forward Up/down Commands on different app contexts, and Precise Pointer control on the web browser.
Also the iPhone 5S/Ipads may include the same touchscreen sensor on the Galaxy S4 (which allows you to Hover w/o touch).
An Stronger and more reliable authentication it's mandatory to use some device as payment medium.