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HTC Launches One Max Smartphone, Fingerprint Sensor Garners Negative Reviews
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Really? the center point of my thumbprint to the center point of my pointer finger is approximately 4 inches. I'd say that's about average.
Uh, where have you been? This site had pictures of the sensor components for the iPhone 5S long before the announcement for the unveil came out.
As early as August 2012, we had hints that Apple was going to incorporate a fingerprint sensor in a new product.
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/1...-adoption-of-fingerprint-scanning-technology/
Later, we saw hints of it in iOS 7 betas, leaked parts for the 5S showing a new home button type.
Also, this new HTC phone is a relatively minor update for their previous model. Considering how they haphazardly placed and implemented the sensor, I would guess that it was a rush job as a "me too" feature added at the last minute after we started seeing leaked parts for the new 5S home button which all but confirmed that we would see it in the 5S.
Actually i have to think about my phone, then find it, then reach for it, then obtain it within my grasp, then flip it over, then flip it back over then push the home button...
At minimum 7 steps.
Um, the 5s needs to be awake from sleep to be able to use it's fingerprint sensor too.
EDIT: I get that it's a one step process though. Pushing the button is essentially the same step as keeping your finger there for scanning.
The 5s is still better, you press the same button, no flipping the phone over, no smugging the the camera lens and no special case to make it work.
I know Apple won't make a 'our scanner is better' advert but can't wait until they test and see which one is quicker, given the extra steps for the HTC.
Exactly.
We'll talk about this phone for one day... two days tops. Then it's on to some other phone.
It is definitely one step on the iPhone. Click home button while keeping your finger on it after the click. Phone unlocked and at home screen. It's even faster than opening an iPhone with no passcode set, as I don't even have to wake and swipe. I love it.
I really hate to have to stereotype certain fanboys, but this thread had just turned into a full iSheep war post. The Motorola Atrix long had the fingerprint sensor before Apple even thought of the idea. Less than a month after Apple copied the idea themselves, another company made a phone with a fingerprint sensor and now everybody is pissed that they copied Apple's "original" idea. These sort of posts really damage the reputation of fellow Apple users, me included.
Well TID is far superior. I had trouble at first calibrating, or using it, since I'm used to the old versions where you press hard and always at the same spot... Once I re-read anand review, I got it. Works every time now and you don't have to be exact where you press.
He wasn't talking about quality, just the idea that people are copying Apple if they have fingerprint scanning on a phone.
Actually you were the one arguing semantics here. To the user, Apple's implementation requires one step. You're saying it technically requires two, which is irrelevant because the user's experience is all that matters. Your line of reasoning is as close to a perfect example of arguing semantics as you can get.
HTC beat Samsung this time in copying Apple
Not really, The motorola Atrix had a fingerprint sensor before apple did. The problem is that its not popular until apple does it. Other companies know that apple will stick with it, improve it, and use it across their entire line of products. The fingerprint sensor was also used on some computers in the past.
So to use this you have to turn the phone over, that's convenient
Uh, no. Hold a phone facing you. Your forefinger should be able to easily move to the middle top rear.
Since the beginning of fingerprint sensors on handhelds, this has been one of the locations that is often used.
Another is on the front below the screen, as Apple did.
Another sensor position that's possible, but is rarely used, is along an edge.
I say again, there's no way HTC got this done since the iPhone announcement. It has obviously been in the works for months, and recent leaks support that fact.
So it's not another "Android copy", it's just a badly implemented finger print scanner lol.
So it's not another "Android copy", it's just a badly implemented finger print scanner lol.
Not going to buy that horrible phablet but .... Apple's case for iPhone 4/4s was a bumper, covering only edges ...
Well, define "original", in this case. Fingerprint sensors aren't new, even on smartphones (Atrix anyone?). The difference is that Apple was the first to include a functional fingerprint "scanner" in a smartphone. HTC is trying to ride the Touch ID wave of success/popularity/consumer-awareness of smartphone fingerprint scanners, and it appears they've done a piss poor job of it which, arguably, is the more offensive part. I do agree with a comment above in that I'm surprised HTC, and not Samsung, was first to jump on this fingerprint sensor bandwagon.