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Apple Exploring Two-Step Touch ID and Facial Recognition System for iPhone 8
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The secret of future forecasting: predict every possible feature and then claim how right you are with the ones that actually show up.
The key challenge of future forecasting: getting someone to pay you well to do that.
Of course, but reading his reports is like reading the three day forecast. It's probably right, but at this point why is he the only person we seem to read about?
It will....if you make a video of your dog walking, then playback.
I think you can even make it so that the whole display is a touchID, there are gaps in between the leds, even more so on microleds, this will enable touchID to be a layer under the display, now, that would be fantastic.
I got my first TouchID iPhone just a couple of months ago, think touchID is slow, and it won't always recognise my fingers, especially if I go out in the cold, just after a mere few minutes the TouchID doesn't register my Finger.
And, it is the iP6S(Edited), should be faster than the original TouchID.
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If so, then I will hold on to my iPhone 6 for another year or even two. If Apple Pay finally comes to Germany, I´m ready. If there are new features and if there is new tech I want or need, then they can have my money.If the touchID tech is currently where the paper describes it now, it will be nowhere near ready for millions of produced iphones i october. So forget about this bezelfree edge-to-edge OLED phone. It's not happening (for now). The 10th anniversary phone will be a LOT less advanced and dreamy compared to all these rumours. It may be more than our usual incremental S upgrades, but it's surely not going to be any sort of "major leap forward" type release.
Settle down and adjust your expectations. That way you will spare yourself from a lot of disapointment come october
This mythical iPhone 10th Anniversary Edition will be released with "All the Rumored Features" along with a preinstalled exclusive copy of Half Life 3! You heard it here folks!
Slow? It learns over time. Try the 6S...It will....if you make a video of your dog walking, then playback.
I think you can even make it so that the whole display is a touchID, there are gaps in between the leds, even more so on microleds, this will enable touchID to be a layer under the display, now, that would be fantastic.
I got my first TouchID iPhone just a couple of months ago, think touchID is slow, and it won't always recognise my fingers, especially if I go out in the cold, just after a mere few minutes the TouchID doesn't register my Finger.
And, it is the iP6, should be faster than the original TouchID.
Right "predicted"..... If you bat 250 (throw tons **** at wall and see what sticks), you're not predicting anything, but gambling. Of course, the gambler and his accolytes only remember the wins.
I look forward to seeing the unveiling but I sure as hell won't be buying it. This revision is what they are calling the supercycle upgrade, which means, its analogous to the iPhone 6 being a major redesign. Will see see what the iPhone 8s or 9 or what comes after offers.
Yawn. Facial recognition is not needed. Let's work on making batteries that don't shut down at 20%, Bluetooth connectivity issues and hmmm I don't know maybe getting things such as portrait mode out of beta
Anything is only a "prediction" until Apple officially announce so no one is 100% accept Apple themselves. But he has been the most reliable, like I said he has a good track record with what Apple have in the works.
Facial recognition in a smartphone is a solution looking for a problem. In addition to being much more difficult than fingerprint sensing (beards, glasses, lighting, even the angle at which you hold the phone all can affect recognition accuracy) the payoff just isn't there, in my opinion. Suppose all the technical challenges are overcome - what do you end up with? A phone you first have to hold up to your face to unlock it - whereas with the fingerprint sensor the phone can be unlocked on the way up out of your pocket.
For this reason, if Apple does adopt face recognition, to me it's a sign they've run out of ideas - resorting to what's really a gimmick to try and get a few more gadget freak customers.
For this reason, if Apple does adopt face recognition, to me it's a sign they've run out of ideas - resorting to what's really a gimmick to try and get a few more gadget freak customers.
I bet the iPhone 8 will sell out in record time, making it back ordered for weeks on end!
If it's rumored and posted on MR, it has to be true... right?
it's if it rumored on MR then there is a 99% chance you'll see that feature in the next Samsung phone model, long before Apple will ever put it in an iPhone. MR is just Samsung's new feature listing site
Have you used windows hello? It works amazing. It can tell me with or without a hat, glasses or beard. I don't seem to have an issue with lighting either. I'd say it fails once a week and I have to put in my password, but then again I probably use it more 20 to 30 times a day. Angle is probably to reason it fails, but you don't have to press anything. You just look at the camera again. It's fast too. And that's on a Windows PC that has so much bloat to wake up.
When was the last time you used you phone without looking at it? How do you use it considering it's all touch screen? Sure, you might be more comfortable with fingerprints, but that doesn't make facial recognition bad.
I imagine it will be optional, as are most other security features. I know there are folks that simply can't use the fingerprint scanning due to worn fingertips, calluses, etc. my mom is one of them,and I am sure she would welcome not putting her password in every time.
Maybe you've been watching videos or reading articles where they have envisioned the iPhone 8 charging when you enter your house. But that's clearly not true.... yet
You're talking about demos from years ago, however it looks to be the technology from Energous that's being implemented. Either way, they weren't the size of a small car, but a transmitter that fits under an iMac would have a range of roughly 2-4 feet, while one that fits under a TV would have a range of 12-15 feet.
They're big now, but as you said that technology will improve over time and the ones shipped in a product are probably going to be smaller anyway. But it's the transmitters that need to change, so when they can fit a 4/5 foot transmitter in the size of an iPad power adapter, the iPhone 8 will be able to take advantage of it. As for the box, rumors have suggested that the wireless transmitter would be sold separately which makes sense considering the size.
You seem to any not listened to what I said, if you throw enough things out, it's not predictions; just passing on rumors. He seems to have become the vessel for every single rumors about the Iphone; and why not since people only remember when he gets things right. There is no downside to being wrong for him.
With hundreds of things he's said in the last 3 months (a ridiculous amount if you put it all in one page), the batting average likely will be near 20% this time.
Other analysts may get less right simply because they also get less wrong. If you get out 1 thing a year (and it's 100% right every time), and Kuo passes on 50 rumors (and is much better at getting them publicized) of which 3-4 turn out right, which one is actually the most reliable?
Does this mean Apple should not release an annual update lest this encourages people to feel the need to upgrade annually? Should Apple only release a new iPhone every two years so somebody who only wants to upgrade every two years never has to feel being behind by not having the most current phone?
And with computers, Apple then should only update their products every three years. That really should make its users content.