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Does anyone want a fingerprint reader?

Sounding like 5s will be the first upgrade I skip. Mildly better camera and silly fingerprint scanner = meh.

I was worried that Apple would get in a stupid gimmick contest with Samsung and it seems to be coming true.
 
We have a fingerprint scanner on the POS systems at my job. They are annoying as hell and take more time than just entering our employee ID.
 
Everyone is so against the fingerprint sensor! How weird! I had an Android phone for a little while that had a fingerprint sensor. It was actually very convenient!

I'm looking forward to this feature! Hopefully, though, it won't be on a convex home button... :(
 
Presumably it won't be 'just' a fingerprint sensor but an entire ecosystem and related features to go with it.

It opens up the possibility of secure payments, credit card type transactions and more. For instance, today it takes a minute or two to pay with PayPal if you use two factor authentication, I can imagine it would be near instant using your fingerprint as the additional user validation.
 
I have no interest or desire for fingerprint technology. I'm hoping this is one rumor that's false.
 
Very gimmicky and pointless IMO (much like Siri, but even more so). Would be very disappointed if that is pretty much the only upgrade from the iPhone 5.
 
A fingerprint reader together with iCloud keychain would actually be a quite nice way to solve the problem we have entering 32 char random password on an iPhone, it's ridiculous now and requires swapping apps between 1password and whatever you are using.
 
Hankster said:
The only reason I want a finger print scanner is so I can unlock the phone while driving. Then I can ask Siri to read me my texts or to call/text someone. As of now you still have to look down and it's very annoying and disrupting to driving.

Finger print technology, if done right, can remove the need to look down and keep eyes on the road.
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You can just grab your phone without looking and hold down the home button for siri. I can do it without looking. Not trying to be a jerk, just pointing out that you probably don't actually have to look at your phone to operate siri right now. Or, if you have to unlock, I'm sure that most of us can do the home button>swipe motion in our sleep by now.
 
orangebluedevil said:
Yes. And it will have passcode as usual, this will just be option 1. IF it "goes bad" then type in your password like you always have.

I'm excited about unlocked with fingerprint, entering password with fingerprints, credit cards with fingerprint. and maybe even multi user.
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I truly don't mind the fingerprint scanner for some security features. I don't passcode my phone now, seems to be more of a pain. I prefer just to swipe and unlock rather then enter a code every time. I don't care for the new "Flat Design". The icons look (at least from the pictures I've seen so far) chintzy and just makes the phone look cheap. For the price and supposedly prestige of the iPhone, one would think and or expect the icons to have a little more dimension or texture type look to them. Other then that, I am looking forward to upgrading from my 4S, as far as screen size goes, I am also happy with the 4S size but who knows, maybe once I start using the new 5S,I will prefer the bigger screen. This is just my opinion, not that it really matters....just saying. Would like to see a group text feature where I got enter 1 contact for a message and it automatically goes out to the group of people I have designated. Never understood why Apple has not included that feature as it is common in many other phones. One other thing, I would like to see bluetooth MAP. Bluetooth® Message Access Profile (MAP). Some smartphones, including iPhone®, do not currently support Bluetooth® MAP.
 
DuckSoup said:
Sorry, can't agree. Siri is FAR from pointless. It's quite useful when used right and to its capabilities.
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And if you're one of the tiny percentage of the population where it doesn't have a 50% or above failure rate as voice recognition is nowhere near a solved problem.

It was a bad, gimmicky idea, as is a fingerprint scanner.
 
I'm looking forward to it. Seems interesting, and not having to input a long password every time is desirable.
 
SJism23 said:
I've heard this said so many times. What you people don't understand is that the one rumoured to be used in the next iPhone is not an optical one (the ones you see in PC laptops that are easily hackable). If you did some reading, you would found that the FS in the 5S uses sensors to analyze the live layer of the fingerprint. We don't know how hackable this tech is (but you can bet that it's harder than the optical ones just from the way it works).
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You are right, I haven't done any reading about a supposed rumor that isn't true right now and is only a vapor of what people wish for. And thats the reason, its not real.
I'm going off of real technology as it exists, not a dream or rumor.
But even so, I don't see this being used for more than user identification to open the phone. Maybe in the future when fingerprint tech matures and is more fool proof. But not anytime soon.
I could be wrong, but don't think I am.
 
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