Finger Print Scanner

I also think the finger print scanner is useless, many circumstances it won't work like if your hand is sweaty or wrong angle. Also we probobly won't be able to take advantage of it and make something out of it unless ios 7 is jailbroken and very talented dev makes the code for it to do something cool.

 

I'm actually really excited about it.

Perhaps it is naivety, but I don't believe Apple would put a fingerprint scanner on a phone unless it worked. Really well.

I love the idea of picking up my phone, pressing the home button and it working straight away; then buying from the App Store without entering a password. In fact, with the new iCloud keychain, maybe no entering passwords ever again.

Pretty cool, I reckon!

 

"Ditto" Hope it does come to the iPhone 5S, but my guess it won't until next year. Get the bugs out and I'm all in for this..

 

I like the idea. Anything that will make my iPhone less attractive to thieves.

 

I had a fingerprint scanner on a laptop once.

Sometimes it worked sometimes it didn't.

Just imagine the fun when you need to make that urgent call, and don't cut your finger!

 

Its obvious that the 5S will have some kind of a new feature to differentiate itself from the 5. A new processor and better camera isn't going to entice many people to upgrade. I can't think of anything software-wise that could be available only on the 5S (like Siri was only available on the 4S), so the finger print scanner does seem possible.

 

Save your judgment for when it comes out.

 

Fingerprint scanner is a novelty, most laptops don't even have this yet. The chances of Apple even considering having this on their PHONE are slim.

 

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Agreed, I don't see Apple doing this for these reasons.

 

It useless. Half the time anyone's finger would be able to unlock the phone. It would make for an endless stream of pointless posts.

 

The technology as it stands is buggy and glitchy and doesn't work that well, as I'm sure anybody with one in their laptop could attest. That said, Apple has a habit of taking things and making them work beautifully (most of the time) and refining the technology.

If Apple releases a fingerprint scanner, I don't think it would be in a buggy, gimmicky way.

 

I'm not excited at all for a fingerprint scanner. I hope the S stands for something other than the scanner/security.

 

Finger print scanner is the feature that I really don't care about. Although, Some people might find it useful for business. It also could be useful for things like online payment, using finger print instead of a password or SMS code.

if 5S is just a little CPU upgrade plus finer print scanner, I will be very happy with my 5.

 

YEs, but he's already judging the quality of a product, without knowing what it's using.

 

I was judging based on different phone I used that had a fingerprint scanner(Motorola atrix) and it's just an opinion, if you don't like my comments just ignore them, it's that easy.

 

If they do include a fingerprint scanner, I don't care absolutely at all about any other features they include, even a 50mp camera 1 week battery and tv sized screen, I will not be upgrading. With all the news lately, I do NOT want apple scanning my finger prints and sending them back to their servers / selling information to 3rd parties.

 

It would be nice to have security and convenience at the same time. A system that scans the finger during "swipe to unlock" would be very nice.

The fingerprint software that I've seen typically asks the user to input several fingers so there is backup in case one becomes unavailable. One could also scan in a toe! Yeah, that is kind of gross.

 

When it became known in 07 that apple was going to use a full touch screen on the iPhone, a TON of people were saying it was going to be terrible because of what they were used to seeing at the time. Well, look what happened. A fingerprint scanner is coming. Whether its the 5S or 6, I don't know. But when it comes im betting on it being a game changer. Just like the touch screen. You'd have to be pretty naive to believe that a FP scanner on the iPhone would be even a little bit similar to what we've been seeing over the few years.