HTC Launches One Max Smartphone, Fingerprint Sensor Garners Negative Reviews

jrswizzle said:
I'm an Apple fan and I much prefer the iPhone implementation....

BUT

I would like to point out that you also have to wake the iPhone before using the scanner, making that part of the argument rather moot.
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Except that you wake the iPhone using the button that the sensor is built into....
 
Placing the sensor next to camera lens is a dubious decision. Placing the sensor on the back side in general does make sense for large phones though. Large screen phones have to have small bezel. Placing the sensor on the front size would make a phone bigger. I wonder what size will 5" iPhone have if Apple keeps the sensor (and a large button) where it is now. Rumor has it that Samsung is trying to place fingerprint scanner on the phone side (left or right) but this does not work very well.
 
viperGTS said:
Um, the 5s needs to be awake from sleep to be able to use it's fingerprint sensor too. :confused:
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As noted above, you can simply press the home button and hold finger on it for a second and you're in. On this phone, you have to press the power button and then use the fingerprint sensor, which is terribly positioned, forcing you to grip your phone awkwardly.
 
jrswizzle said:
I'm an Apple fan and I much prefer the iPhone implementation....

BUT

I would like to point out that you also have to wake the iPhone before using the scanner, making that part of the argument rather moot.
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yup but its still one step. if the iphone is off, you press the home button to wake it. in doing so, it activates the fingerprint scanner and lets you in. its one step from 'off' to activated phone.
 
jrswizzle said:
I'm an Apple fan and I much prefer the iPhone implementation....

BUT

I would like to point out that you also have to wake the iPhone before using the scanner, making that part of the argument rather moot.
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No, you don't. You just press the button, as you depress, just leave the finger, and it'll wake up the screen, unlock all in one motion without any more effort. You don't have to press the home button twice, nor press the power button to turn on the screen and then put your finger on the scanner. Those are possible but the single press is the smoothest of them all.

This HTC device requires you to actually press a button to wake up the screen, and then turn around and swipe it vertically (which iPhone scanner can take your finger at any angle).
 
I wonder if someone will go through a simple 30 hour process to unlock this phone with a finger print copy or will no one care? :)
 
I hope other OEM's don't rush this. It's useful technology but might not get adopted by consumers if the implementation is poor.
 
This is such a joke, and very depressing. Think of how bad things would be if Apple weren't around to do it right?
 
jrswizzle said:
t out that you also have to wake the iPhone before using the scanner, making that part of the argument rather moot.
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I don't think so. With the iphone you press the home button and hold your finger on it for a fraction of a second. That's it. As I understand it from reading the review, with the HTC you have to unlock it with a separate input, then reach around and find the sensor, hold the finger straight and slide it down over the sensor.

The iphone is one step, as the wake input and scanner are integrated.
 
MikhailT said:
No, you don't. You just press the button, as you depress, just leave the finger, and it'll wake up the screen, unlock all in one motion without any more effort. You don't have to press the home button twice, nor press the power button to turn on the screen and then put your finger on the scanner. Those are possible but the single press is the smoothest of them all.

This HTC device requires you to actually press a button to wake up the screen, and then turn around and swipe it vertically (which iPhone scanner can take your finger at any angle).
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You're arguing semantics. I never said you had to press multiple buttons or make multiple gestures or movements.

Fact is, you have to first PRESS the home button (which wakes the device) so the fingerprint can be read. You can't simply leave the finger on the home button.

Relax.....I'm not attacking Apple. Simply pointing out that part of the argument isn't valid - unless you expound on multiple touches (which I'd say has more to do with where the button is located - which is addressed.)

Jesus - have you seen me around here? I get bashed all the time for being too pro-Apple.....lol can't win for losing.
 
"People want larger phones, thus let's give them an even larger one than the Galaxy Note; people want fingerprint readers, thus let's give them one. What do you say? A solution par with the iPhone 5S would make it impossible for us to make a profit on the final product? No problem: just put the technology there, no matter how hal-@$$ed (as long as it's cheap for us to produce), and let's hope people will buy it." And so this aberration was born.
 
This is hilarious. They needed to make it different somehow to reduce the number of claims that they are just copying Apple. They choose to do this by implementing fingerprint scanning in a more user-unfriendly way.

Hooray for android "innovation."
 
I love the fingerprint sensor on my iPhone, but I would really love more functionality out of it. I know everyone is hyper-sensitive about privacy, but I would love to expand it to be a "One Fingerprint" tool similar to One Password. If I could use it to log in to websites and servers that would be really cool.

I also like the idea of different fingers for different functions. I'm assuming that these things will come with future iOS updates.

And while many things on the iPhone are great, I wouldn't mind front-facing stereo speakers like HTC has. The iPhone gets really loud, but it doesn't sound particularly good.
 
The only reason of keeping the fingerprint sensor near camera, I feel, is it might be using same HTC imagechip for processing fingerprint data and it might be sharing the same camera bus. :eek:
 
dugbug said:
I don't think so. With the iphone you press the home button and hold your finger on it for a fraction of a second. That's it. As I understand it from reading the review, with the HTC you have to unlock it with a separate input, then reach around and find the sensor, hold the finger straight and slide it down over the sensor.

The iphone is one step, as the wake input and scanner are integrated.
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Again - the argument stated in the article is that the negative is you have to first wake the phone for the fingerprint to be read. I agree with all of you - the iPhone way is by far superior. Simply pointing out that technically, the iPhone requires the device to be woken before a fingerprint can be read as well - though the implementation is MUCH smoother given the location of the sensor.

THAT is the biggest problem with the HTC One Max. The location not only makes it awkward for you to swipe your fingerprint to unlock, but it also adds a second physical step after waking the device.

Just trying to be fair here.....everyone just calm down. :cool:
 
Brahs. BRAHHHS. Listen to me. If you are considering switching to Android, don't bother unless it is a Nexus phone.
 
prehnra said:
This is hilarious. They needed to make it different somehow to reduce the number of claims that they are just copying Apple. They choose to do this by implementing fingerprint scanning in a more user-unfriendly way.

Hooray for android "innovation."
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And apparently you can set 3 fingers up to launch apps but you can only do it from the lock screen. WTF?
 
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