And others are laughing harder and harder at you trying to continually explain something that is pointless. Seriously, why not spend another 20 posts trying to get your point across and look down on others who don't agree. Sounds like the intelligent thing to do.
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HTC Launches One Max Smartphone, Fingerprint Sensor Garners Negative Reviews
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And others are laughing harder and harder at you trying to continually explain something that is pointless. Seriously, why not spend another 20 posts trying to get your point across and look down on others who don't agree. Sounds like the intelligent thing to do.
HTC One was nice, this one is ugly, IMO. I'd like it better if there was no plastic band.
It took not even a week for someone to hack Apple's fingerprint sensor - and that only showed that such sensors are stupid ideas in the first place. As some security developer from the Linux community said: "Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords." And we leave these fingerprints on everything that we touch. So basically Apple introduced a stupid and dangerous feature and others are doing the same.
Regarding the stupid rip-off comments: The One Max was in development and in the rumor mill for several weeks if not months. And they certainly did not copy Apple; if they borrowed ideas from somewhere, then it was from the LG G2 that also has buttons on the back. And Apple sure as hell did not invent fingerprint sensors... With the NSA illegaly stealing data from everywhere, no company should ship such profucts anymore. And nobody should use them.
Anybody armed with the power of a search engine would know that fingerprint readers on phones existed on phones well before the Atrix.
Nobody's actually seriously pissed; they're all pissing their pants in laughter.
The hilarity is that the iPhone 5S is the only decent implementation of this decade-old idea so far, and yet other manufacturers still can't do a decent implementation despite an example sitting in front of them.
Anybody who thinks HTC copied Apple doesn't realize that it takes much longer than a couple months to add a fingerprint sensor to a phone. Much longer time than it takes to pull a feature. What HTC should have done was to not ship the fingerprint sensor until the next phone so they'd have time to get it done right.
The HTC One Max leaked in August 2013
Apple bought Authentec in July 2012... so they must be serious about this technology!
But both were predated by the Motorola Atrix... and hundreds of other devices with fingerprint scanners over the last decade.
Who cares about this timeline?
Finger print scanner aside, the HTC One has a seriously nice design. I hope that apple will adopt something similar in removing the chin and forehead.
As for the location on the scanner, yeah bad idea.
As for the location on the scanner, yeah bad idea.
Yeah, it's so much smarter to buy and carry two devices with you instead of just owning one gadget that can do it all...
Look at the Design
What does it tell you? The design on screen is very plain: you can pick up the phone, make a call, write a note of some sort, do a thing that involves squares, see the globe (Internet), and take a picture.
The two ends of the phone are taken up by stereo speakers. Probably sound pretty good.
So... where does the fingerprint device go? You can't say, "Just jam it in between the icons, or under the icons and above the speaker. Well... no good. Cluttered. You'd hit the other icons half the time. Suddenly, you phone somebody or write a note to someone that says "konihhgwlllwz". No good.
Where? Where, except where there's been a hardware button since 2007?
I think they realized at some late point in the design phase that Apple was putting touch ID on their newest deluxe phone, so they rushed it through faster, way faster, than they should have. It's better to wait until you have it right, HTC. Release a new phone that doesn't have the feature, and then a phone that does, whenever the feature is ready. Don't worry! The Android press will say, "Who needs it?" until they have an equivalent implementation, when it's "Android gets it right!"
What does it tell you? The design on screen is very plain: you can pick up the phone, make a call, write a note of some sort, do a thing that involves squares, see the globe (Internet), and take a picture.
The two ends of the phone are taken up by stereo speakers. Probably sound pretty good.
So... where does the fingerprint device go? You can't say, "Just jam it in between the icons, or under the icons and above the speaker. Well... no good. Cluttered. You'd hit the other icons half the time. Suddenly, you phone somebody or write a note to someone that says "konihhgwlllwz". No good.
Where? Where, except where there's been a hardware button since 2007?
I think they realized at some late point in the design phase that Apple was putting touch ID on their newest deluxe phone, so they rushed it through faster, way faster, than they should have. It's better to wait until you have it right, HTC. Release a new phone that doesn't have the feature, and then a phone that does, whenever the feature is ready. Don't worry! The Android press will say, "Who needs it?" until they have an equivalent implementation, when it's "Android gets it right!"
To make a phone call with a 6-inch device is just ridiculous.
I'd prefer to carry two devices.
And people deny's companies try to copy Apple. 
Also note the YOLO instagram image in the bottom right of the HTC. WTF!
Also note the YOLO instagram image in the bottom right of the HTC. WTF!
I highly doubt many people are buying the 5S because of the fingerprint scanner -_-
I agree, though I think I'm in the minority. I had an iPad before I had an iPhone 4S (and now 5S). I stopped using my iPad as soon as I purchased the 4S, so that left me with two devices (my iPhone and my MBP).
And people deny's companies try to copy Apple.
Also note the YOLO instagram image in the bottom right of the HTC. WTF!
Copying Apple by putting in a feature that was in a phone before Apple put it in the 5S? Amazing!
A 6" device is too big to be a phone and a too small to be a tablet. That's not the best of both worlds.
This is my opinion... of course.
I'd rather have a phone-sized phone... and a tablet-sized tablet. Sometimes two devices are OK.
This reminds me of the Surface Pro... people say "it's a laptop and tablet in one!"
Sure.... but no one was asking for a tiny 10.6" laptop... that's where the idea falls apart for me.
Sometimes you just can't combine two devices into one.
I have this conversation at work where I tell the android lovers, that after using android I am happy with my iPhone. I also tell them that I actually believe the iPhone to be the best looking phone. But if I had to go with android, that the HTC one was the best looking phone. However this max really took a wrong turn with the sensor implementation. I love my 5s and the way the touchid works. I am hopeful that when the keychain comes out it will integrate with that making this really awesome.
Considering dozens, or even hundreds of people touch the very same, every day objects. Not guaranteed they will get the right print. Might get lucky through trial & error. But not very practical in any sense.
Honesty... whether the HTC One Max has a fingerprint scanner or not... it's probably not gonna sell very well.
It's been said that the regular HTC One is HTC's last great hurrah... I'm not so sure they needed to mess with a 6" phone.