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Analyst Predicts No Siri on iPhone 5C, Fingerprint Scanner Solely for Device Unlocking on iPhone 5S
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I think it is a little less useful on a phone. Put it in a car, on a watch, on a TV and it might make a little more sense. It is certainly a ton better than the standard voice activation in my car.
Yes, yes I do. The intention is to make a lower cost device to gain more market share and get those people into their eco system. That is the only real reason here but it's great publicity and looks good for apple. Once in, they are bound to spend more buying songs, movies, etc. They also will continue to buy the latest as time goes on. Makes perfect sense... but Siri should be on this device. A finger sensor cant be the only thing better than the 5C.
Instead of leaving out Siri, it could be just a GSM/UMTS-3G phone... no CDMA2000 or LTE capability... which could save Apple ~$40 in parts and royalties.
That would allow them to price it in the magic area below $300 for the majority of the world.
That would allow them to price it in the magic area below $300 for the majority of the world.
Tech Analysts... aka d*ckheads who don't know anything more than the general public who get paid to guess.
Them and the weatherman... you can have a 100% failure rate and still not get fired.
Them and the weatherman... you can have a 100% failure rate and still not get fired.
For me, it is horrible playing anything in my car, sadly...
The only time it's really unreliable is when I have wifi turned on, and I pick up transient wifi networks (my cable company has access points all over the state, so that's a common occurrence). As long as I have a decent 4G or LTE signal I get pretty decent reliability.
Because the article is stating that the home button that contains the fingerprint sensor will ONLY unlock the device? Meaning THE HOME BUTTON WILL DO NOTHING ELSE. Do you read or just look at the headline and go from there?
I think you are misunderstanding the article. The article is saying that the fingerprint sensor will only be used for user authentication. Not that the home button will do nothing else.
I'm all for added security and budget phones but I don't think there really is anything killer for me here in terms of a must have feature. I'd like to see some dramatic battery improvements honestly than anything else.
256MB RAM in the original iPad, 512MB RAM in iPad Mini and the usual intentional lack of some software features on older devices that are not necessarily hardware limited and there are more.
I'm in complete agreement.
While others will believe the warm & fuzzy thought that Apple "will only" use the fingerprint sensor for authentication, I'm not so easily mislead. As far as Chatty Kathy aka Siri, that's just a Toys-Are-Us pre-programmed gimmick, thus far.
Why buy an iPhone 5S which at best will be a small incremental upgrade, when you can try out something a bit newer. Consumers living outside of wealthy enclaves such as Silicon Valley or even CA in general will respond quite favorably to a slightly lower priced iPhone. Walmart is salivating at the thought.
Nothing new, most analysts are usually wrong.
But you are right, SIRI is vital to iOS, and a fingerprint scanner is what the Wallet app needs to become more useful.
and imagine logging in all of your accounts using your fingerprint instead of those hard-to-memorize passwords.
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every iOS product that Apple makes, moving forward, will have Siri. eventually all products with have it
those who are saying the low cost iPhone won't have LTE are likely wrong IMO.
Given how cloud orientated the phone is and how things like iTunes match require a somewhat decent speed connection, leaving out LTE when the baseband chip's have dropped in cost substantially now would essentially be breaking the phone before it is even sold. Not to mention how rapidly LTE is being deployed in the second half of 2013 onwards.
LTE would be more important than say a faster processor or more RAM, the games on the 4S have amazing enough graphics for a phone - that box can be ticked IMO. In fact only actual fault with the 4S is no LTE and not the fastest 3G either.
Also keep in mind the iPad mini has LTE.
The biggest question is what frequencies of LTE will the phone support, will it come in flavours to support LTE in all Scandinavian countries and the new frequency bands auctioned in the UK/
Given how cloud orientated the phone is and how things like iTunes match require a somewhat decent speed connection, leaving out LTE when the baseband chip's have dropped in cost substantially now would essentially be breaking the phone before it is even sold. Not to mention how rapidly LTE is being deployed in the second half of 2013 onwards.
LTE would be more important than say a faster processor or more RAM, the games on the 4S have amazing enough graphics for a phone - that box can be ticked IMO. In fact only actual fault with the 4S is no LTE and not the fastest 3G either.
Also keep in mind the iPad mini has LTE.
The biggest question is what frequencies of LTE will the phone support, will it come in flavours to support LTE in all Scandinavian countries and the new frequency bands auctioned in the UK/
Yeah, that's the idea. I hope it really happens now. All it takes is implementing an improved Keychain system that takes advantage of the Fingerprint scanner.
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No Siri.. Absurd
I use Siri all the time. The fact he predicts no Siri makes all his other predictions doubtful.
***The who can, do. Those who can't, become analysts.***
I use Siri all the time. The fact he predicts no Siri makes all his other predictions doubtful.
***The who can, do. Those who can't, become analysts.***
yawn, why can't you read the post before commenting on it, you must be a workman as picking holes is something your obviously good at, I said if you care to look it up "it doesn't matter if it had Siri or not (the thread title) the screen size was more important with any new iPhone release". And yes Apple have had more than enough time to achieve this!
You were the one that posted "there's always one" and that for me does kinda make you a fan boy as you obviously find it hard to take any criticism or let anyone else actually have an opinion. Personally I like Siri but it's a small gimmick compared to the actual design, thats all I'm trying to say. But maybe your just one of those people that just buys anything shiny and silver that says Apple on the side...
Apples depth of power to influence buyers through a carefully scripted dialog, is not to be overlooked.
You'll notice it's not just a home button with fingerprint sensor, but it's a SAPPHIRE Home Button. The moment the women see the word sapphire, they salivate like a Pavlov Dog, and run to buy one
You'll notice it's not just a home button with fingerprint sensor, but it's a SAPPHIRE Home Button. The moment the women see the word sapphire, they salivate like a Pavlov Dog, and run to buy one
Having no Siri is impossible. It is a mark of the company's breakthrough in mobile interface. By removing Siri, they will paint a picture that it is not as "necessary" or important as they say it is. Siri will definitely work for the iPhone 5C. They can't make an iPhone cheap enough to not have enough specs to at least run it. That would end up looking like Android fragmentation.
You're the one misreading things here. Paraphrasing the article, it says that "the fingerprint sensor will only be used to unlock the phone" - not that "the home button will only be used to unlock the phone".