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Fingerprint Scanners on iPhone 5s and Galaxy S5 Compared in New Video
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I've had my iPhone 5s since launch day and I've never had any issues with TouchID. It's by far my favorite new feature apple has ever put in any of their devices. I can't stand grabbing my wife's iPad or my kid's iPod and having to put in a passcode. It feels so unnatural now.
Live on the edge. Tell her to remove the passcode, at least for the iPad. iOS7 is really nice with swipe to unlock anywhere on the screen instead of just the bottom area on iOS6.
No way. I run a 30 character password on my iPhone in conjunction with touchid, and before it, I had a long passcode on both my iPhone and iPad before I gave it up. My kids have passwords, not passcodes, my wife does too.
I work in computer security, everyone has their own iOS device in my house, and their own username and password for their own computers.
I love it when I have ESD build up and touch the Touch ID button.
The iPhone displays the apple logo for about 5 seconds then returns to the home screen.
Looks like someone at apple overlooked ESD entering the sensor.
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First accepting that incorrect spelling abbreviations and grammar are "normal" and now it's considered unnatural to enter characters from a keyboard.
The iPhone displays the apple logo for about 5 seconds then returns to the home screen.
Looks like someone at apple overlooked ESD entering the sensor.
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The human race gets lazier everyday.
First accepting that incorrect spelling abbreviations and grammar are "normal" and now it's considered unnatural to enter characters from a keyboard.
Yes it has been a lot better since 7.1, I just wish my rMini had it. It seems to be such a chore inputting a passcode now.
All this talk about the usability of the S5 vs 5S fingerprint scanner. Remember when Apple released information about their Touch ID and all the hoopla about security and who gets access to what?
Samsung comes out with theirs and announces developers gain access to the sensor on Android! Wow, all of a sudden no one gives a rat's ass about privacy?
Samsung comes out with theirs and announces developers gain access to the sensor on Android! Wow, all of a sudden no one gives a rat's ass about privacy?
No - it just proves that SAMSUNG doesn't give a rat's ass about security, APPLE does.
really?
https://www.samsungknox.com/en
Don't see Apple trying really hard to get into real world workplace security like Samsung, Blackberry, and now Windows phone do.
(not saying that iPhones don't have security. They're perfectly acceptable devices for most workplace)
But any workplace that demands ultra security and safety, Apple is actually behind.
There's a reason why the White house still, despite Blackberries woes uses Blackberries. There's a reason why most major corporations are still rolling out and supporting blackberries for executives and ultra secure places.
Apples implementation of Finger print technology is absolutely the best in the business. They did a great job at making IT secure for consumer use.
But Apple is nowhere near everyone else for back end security and encryption. (would be nice if they would put more effort into this)
I love it when I have ESD build up and touch the Touch ID button.
The iPhone displays the apple logo for about 5 seconds then returns to the home screen.
Looks like someone at apple overlooked ESD entering the sensor.
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The human race gets lazier everyday.
First accepting that incorrect spelling abbreviations and grammar are "normal" and now it's considered unnatural to enter characters from a keyboard.
I'm sorry, but embracing a new technology that saves you time and doesn't dumb down any aspect of your normal life has nothing to do with being lazy. It's a fantastic feature that makes using the device even more enjoyable. My phone has a 30 character password and locks immediately with a screen timeout. When I pick up my phone, by the time my eyes have focused on the screen it's unlocked. Nothing lazy there, just great technology put to great use and execution. I want it in more places.
No offense, but you're wrong.
I have 5 digits mapped (both my thumbs and pointers and my wife's thumb) and it works on the first attempt 99% of the time.
No technology is perfect - this is as flawless as it gets. You want to tell me I'm not experiencing what I'm experiencing, go right ahead....but it doesn't make you correct.
Then again, I seem to be free from most of the issues people complain about here so perhaps I'm just the luckiest iPhone owner on the planet....
The human race gets lazier everyday.
First accepting that incorrect spelling abbreviations and grammar are "normal" and now it's considered unnatural to enter characters from a keyboard.
Oh please....along the same lines as the above poster who quoted you, my device is actually now MORE secure.
Instead of a 4-digit passcode, I have a complex password that can be bypassed ONLY by me with my fingerprint. Anyone else would have to guess at that password versus a simple 4-digit code.
My 5S is a work device and my emails sometimes contain sensitive information. Being able to unlock my device without entering in a complex password is not "lazy" - its convenient.
The human race gets lazier everyday.
First accepting that incorrect spelling abbreviations and grammar are "normal" and now it's considered unnatural to enter characters from a keyboard.
You know, for someone picking spelling and grammar to take a stand on, you sure did butcher that last sentence. Use some commas.
Touch ID works great.
The performance of the iPhone 5S Touch ID function shown in the video matches pretty well with my experience with the phone since getting it on launch day. Once you train it, it works really well. If my fingers are overly wet or dirty it won't work, and sometimes I miss the button with my finger, but it's pretty reliable. SOOOOOO much easier than typing a passcode. I'm so hooked to it that I won't even think about getting a new iPad until it includes Touch ID.
I even want a new Mac with Touch ID - who wants to enter a stupid passcode every time you unlock your screen? Doing that makes me feel like a caveman...
The performance of the iPhone 5S Touch ID function shown in the video matches pretty well with my experience with the phone since getting it on launch day. Once you train it, it works really well. If my fingers are overly wet or dirty it won't work, and sometimes I miss the button with my finger, but it's pretty reliable. SOOOOOO much easier than typing a passcode. I'm so hooked to it that I won't even think about getting a new iPad until it includes Touch ID.
I even want a new Mac with Touch ID - who wants to enter a stupid passcode every time you unlock your screen? Doing that makes me feel like a caveman...
My Opinion.
Whilst Apple's system is totally different, and (assuming it works) I would say better in that you just hold your finger and can do at any angle.
It was obvious the guy in the video was being deliberately sloppy in an attempt to TRY and show the Samsung version in a bad light.
You could take many things in reality, use them sloppily and say, look rubbish. That is more down the idiot using it, than any device in question.
Given the Samsung really is lets say a two handed phone for many, Anyone with a little care I would think could unlock it pretty well with the swipe method.
Sure you can go out to be sloppy and show how bad you can operate something, but that says more about you than the product.
Whilst Apple's system is totally different, and (assuming it works) I would say better in that you just hold your finger and can do at any angle.
It was obvious the guy in the video was being deliberately sloppy in an attempt to TRY and show the Samsung version in a bad light.
You could take many things in reality, use them sloppily and say, look rubbish. That is more down the idiot using it, than any device in question.
Given the Samsung really is lets say a two handed phone for many, Anyone with a little care I would think could unlock it pretty well with the swipe method.
Sure you can go out to be sloppy and show how bad you can operate something, but that says more about you than the product.
He was deliberately being sloppy with the S5? Oh please.
When he made a thumb/pointer finger swipe that was vertically straight and in the middle of the button it worked flawlessly. It's not an issue of him being sloppy but the implementation being bad. When you hold a phone in your hand your thumb naturally rests at an angle, or horizontal, not vertical. So devising a solution that requires a perfectly straight vertical swipe is poor design on Samsung's part. Having to use two hands (or the device flat on a surface) to unlock the phone isn't always ideal. I'd say most of the time I'm unlocking my 5S with one hand and with my thumb at an angle or in a horizontal position.
Try registering your main finger twice. Once I did that, my thumb unlocks it first time 90% of the time.
OMG. Nice way to help Samsung's mess of an implementation of fingerprint I.D. look better. There's no way in reality anyone could use this feature on the S5. Nobody in the real world picks up their phone and naturally holds it "properly" so they "properly" swipe their finger downward in a straight line to unlock their phone.
In the real world, a person would pick up their iPhone and lay their finger over the home button in any which way to unlock it.
Just admit it man, the Samsung fingerprint reader is too high maintenance for real world use. I should've known there would be someone here to defend that.
Nah, I think it proves Samsung is more interested in checking things off a feature list than anything else. Now they can check off finger print scanner.
Samsung need a patent just to put a fingerprint sensor on a smartphone?
Who was the first one to do a fingerprint sensor on smartphone?
Who was the first one to do a fingerprint sensor on smartphone?
This is my experience exactly. Prior to 7.1 I even went through all the multiple tricks to over-train it, etc. Nothing worked. Or rather, it "worked" but almost always took multiple tries, each try was slow, and often enough ended up requiring a typed password after too many failures.
After 7.1, TouchID is an absolute dream, unlocking the first time almost every time, and almost instantaneously. I initially wondered if maybe Apple had broken the scan to the point that anyone could unlock my device by putting their thumb there (doesn't seem to be the case though). I find I'm starting to get frustrated now when my phone doesn't unlock for a whole half second.