Finally someone has half a brain. Some posters are saying what if, this or that, is going to happen to ones finger to get into an iPhone (Copy it or cut it off). This is real life. No one is going to go to that extreme to get into your phone..... Except you spouse of course.
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iOS 7 Beta 4 Code Points to Home Button Fingerprint Sensor for iPhone 5S
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Finally someone has half a brain. Some posters are saying what if, this or that, is going to happen to ones finger to get into an iPhone (Copy it or cut it off). This is real life. No one is going to go to that extreme to get into your phone..... Except you spouse of course.
And it's about time I must say. The hardware home button is long in the tooth imho.
To the people saying that the NSA will get their finger prints: Don't most of you have a passport? I don't know about the US, but EU passports have biometric data on them -> finger prints.
Yep, Samsung created fingerprint scanners. A different day, same nonsense from the usual troller
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Couldn't agree more.
It's not the technology, it's the implementation. The reason you find the idea so useless is because you're not using your imagination. Consider this scenario:
Your credit card info is entered into iTunes. So you leave your wallet and all your credit cards behind. All you have is your iPhone. Go to store. Purchase something. Store X checkout person asks you for your iTunes username. Your invoice then goes to Apple via the store's internet connection. You then get a pop-up dialog box on your iPhone that tells you how much you are being charged at Store X. You then confirm or deny the charge. If you confirm, you simply enter a password in. However, if you have an iPhone with fingerprint sensor, you simply swipe it, and you're done. Voila! The whole purchase was accomplished with no NFC, no scanner, and most importantly, no wallet.
This could also work very easily with ATM machines, where you simply enter your iTunes username, and a verification message pops up on your phone requiring either a password or swipe of your finger.
If something like this picked up steam, Apple could very well kill off credit cards as we know it. There's no reason Apple has to route payments through credit cards if they could deduct the money directly from your bank account. 3% per transaction? Could make iPhone revenue look like chump change.
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It's also the most commonly broken part that Apple has to repair under warranty.
I don't think so. It won't be your actual finger touching the home button, therefore fingerprint can possibly be read.
It's a good thing this won't affect me though.
I was mostly making a joke, hence the little windy-face, but ok. And my birth certificate has no thumbprint.
I guess you've never been waiting for something to load, respond to a text, etc.. only to have your phone turn off repeatedly and having to re-type in your passcode over and over again?
Maybe you have more patience than I do, but I think one press is better than four.
This is so gonna happen, and I bet the guy whose penis is all over the Internet will sue Apple
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I don't think so. It won't be your actual finger touching the home button, therefore fingerprint can possibly be read.
It's a good thing this won't affect me though.
Be interesting to see how the full protection case designers deal with this, other than leaving the home button exposed.
This is so gonna happen, and I bet the guy whose penis is all over the Internet will sue Apple
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Be interesting to see how the full protection case designers deal with this, other than leaving the home button exposed.
If the home button is capacitive and isn't a physical button anymore that pushes in to make contact, there will be no need to cover it. Case makers will simply leave the bottom part of the screen uncovered.
Retina scan would require high resolution zoom. It's unnecessary. All it requires is facial recognition which they already have - it's built into iPhoto. In combination with the fingerprint sensor, it confirms the identity and that the live owner is using it.
Thank you! One of the few intelligent posts in a sea of "they will cut my finger" drama queens.
I see MANY people in offices, with Otter boxes etc. Not to mention how so many claim the home button breaks or fails to function.
Did you not see my all of my previous post - bolded to help my statement stand out -
I've never understood putting such a thin, artfully designedphone in those big thick cases unless you work construction/maintenance etc.
How hard are people on their phones?
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The home button will probably be switched to capacitive, and will be wider. More of an oval shape. Some people have big fingers, so the current button won't get a full print. Even if the sensor is very small, I still feel like the home button will be larger.
Everybody who is freaking out that people can still access the phone by copying their finger prints are crazy.
So the prints will either be stored on the phone, or encrypted in the Cloud (more likely the phone, so the tin-foil-wearing paranoid people don't have a cow).
Everybody who is freaking out that people can still access the phone by copying their finger prints are crazy.
So the prints will either be stored on the phone, or encrypted in the Cloud (more likely the phone, so the tin-foil-wearing paranoid people don't have a cow).
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I still think the coloured iphone won't be a low cost iphone. They will be improved internals of the 5, such as camera, processor and possibly a "pro" iphone in metal that has a standout feature such as the fingerprint sensor.