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iPhone 5S to Include Sapphire-Covered Convex Home Button with Fingerprint Sensor?

I think this is great, Apple should be using their cash to purchase interesting and unique (in implementation) features they can add to the iPhone. I take it there's no amount of money that can buy 50% more battery density right now though 🙂
 
From a user experience perspective, a convex button is a turn off to me. If its in my pocket a convex button could easily be triggered if it protruded from the face of the device.

Unless the top of the convex button was flush with the device, but at which point it's not really saving any space, and the lightning connector would also get in the way.

This seems to be a rumor though out by engineers and not cross checked by the experience guys. Apple is good at letting experience guys veto the engineers in the name of usability. At least, Apple was good at that in the past...
 
Convex home button? So much for wanting a home button sticker. As for the people who want a bigger screen, it would only work iPad Mini size. Android phones look good bigger, Apple phones look good the way the iPhone 5 looks.
 
wmukj said:
I may get onboard with the idea, but only if it can be turned on/off at will.
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How would anybody come up with the idea that one will not be able to turn it off? Look through the settings app on your iPhone, you can turn off pretty much everything.
 
manu chao said:
So, your statement that you are perfectly happy with your iPhone 5 only strictly refers to hardware features? In regard to software you see areas that could be improved, whereas in hardware you cannot think of any?
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I didn't make any statement about being happy with my iPhone 5. I don't have an iPhone 5. But I am perfectly happy with my galaxy S4.
 
xNYMetsx said:
I didn't bother reading your post after seeing numbers. Go back to my early reply to AppleIsKing. When I said "Failing", I mean't failing in quality and innovation. Apple needs to get rid of the "It's just enough" attitude towards the iPhone. They need to make the iPhone an overachiever just like the Mac is, because that's what makes Macs great.
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I see, although "failing" is a pretty strong word to mean "not overachieving". Even if it was an hyperbole it wouldn't work, both terms are not even gradating the same notion, but whatever.
 
flux73 said:
Perhaps it's because you're not considering how a fingerprint sensor could be used.

My #1 reason to be excited about it is mobile payments. Download the Apple Store app and go to your nearest Apple Store to check out how it might work. Now imagine if Apple convinces all the other retailers to use the same model. And they just might because 5-20% of sales at retailers are lost due to fraudulent purchases.

My #2 reason is that if the rumors are true and it can also be used as a joystick control, this sets up the iPhone to be used as a controller for the Apple TV if and when it is opened to third party apps. Games.
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1. I don't care about paying for things with a phone. It's utterly meaningless to me.

2. iOS7 has API's for controller support so this feature will come to my iPhone 5.
 
I absolutely care about this announcement. Not about a 4.7 inch screen. Eh.

I've been waiting for a fingerprint sensor for a long time. For security reasons, I have an extended passcode on my lock screen (happily, I can still set it to 5 mins before locking). Every time I have to unlock my phone, I type in half a dozen or so characters and then 'ok'. That's a real drag. Having the option to just use my thumbprint to unlock the phone? Yes please!
 
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Ryth said:
Even though it's going to need a 'live' /active finger for the access, just think of all the dumb thieves that are going to cut peoples thumbs and fingers off when they steal their iPhone now because they think they'll need their fingerprint..which won't work.

And yes, I'm being dead serious. You'll hear a story like this within 6 months of someone getting one of their fingers chopped off in the robbery with the phone.

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iMacs don't run each release of OSX, nor do PCs run each release of Windows. Their are minimum processor specs. Same with the iPhone.

Sorry but your argument just isn't sound.
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Dude, great minds think alike. In south america, there were so many murders and violent crimes at atm machines, banks put finger print scanners on them for a time to "increase" security.... but it just increased severed limbs...

That girl who like cut off her bf dick and stabbed him and just went to jail... a crazy chick like that who thinks her man is cheating.... oh watch out for that meat cleaver.... Lorena bobbit never lied
 
maxosx said:
What I find hilarious about this thread is people actually believe that Apple would be so stupid as to put a convex button so large it would actually protrude enough to cause a problem.

How quick these same individuals are to forget that Apple has highly skilled engineers 😱
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They could also put a micro syringe and Precede d with blood recognition in home button
 
duffman9000 said:
If the size bothers you don't buy one. Do you also complain about the laptop sizes that Apple makes? Was 17" too big for you? How about 15"? How about 13"? How about 11"? Good thing you're not in charge of Apple.
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HAHA. So you're replying to a post about size options, and your argument is to cite a product line that DOES offer options as a rebuttal? That's brilliant.

There is one size iPhone (2 if you count a now EOL model).... with laptops you have several size choices, and tablet options. iPhonoe... you have the option Apple says is good for you.

Screen size is one of the reasons I went to Android.... It's an important feature to people, which is why apple bumped up to the mammouth 4" screen from 3.5" when everyone else already was dismissing 4" as too small

Apple has lost marketshare in mobile steadily.... things like screen size impact that loss. And making a phone longer and not wider.... dumb choice. There are only tens of millions of people out there with big hands....
 
I used my cousins HTC One with a 4.7 inch screen, it was a nice experience.

Somehow, HTC kept the overall phone size down as much as they could. It's pretty comfortable in the hand - unlike Galaxy phones.
 
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johngordon said:
Helps what?
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Viewing.


If you have normal vision, and are holding an iPhone at a typical viewing distance, you don't need to squint.
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Many people don't have normal vision and don't wish/need to wear glasses all the time. Even so, are you saying it is easier to view a 4" screen than a 5" screen when both are held at the same distance? Because if you are you are wrong. Period.
 
tekno said:
I didn't make any statement about being happy with my iPhone 5. I don't have an iPhone 5. But I am perfectly happy with my galaxy S4.
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Sorry, you had answered to BarryL's question which he had posed to juanmanas, and I thus had assumed that you were juanmanas.
 
Technarchy said:
1. I don't care about paying for things with a phone. It's utterly meaningless to me.

2. iOS7 has API's for controller support so this feature will come to my iPhone 5.
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1. You may not say that once you actually have it available to use. To not have to remember passwords and to not have to bring credit cards/membership cards with you when you go out? No need for a wallet? I'm pretty excited about that.

2. I'm talking about using the fingerprint sensor itself as a controller. Not having to buy a separate one.
 
ROTTEN-AAPL said:
Will it recognize my middle finger or will this be too politically incorrect for Apple? 😀
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When you use the middle finger...Siri then replies..."Do you feel that way about me? Why are you giving me the bird? Please use your index and thumb only, please, OK?"
 
MacAddict1978 said:
HAHA. So you're replying to a post about size options, and your argument is to cite a product line that DOES offer options as a rebuttal? That's brilliant.

There is one size iPhone (2 if you count a now EOL model).... with laptops you have several size choices, and tablet options. iPhonoe... you have the option Apple says is good for you.
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Yup, Apple says that's the best size until the size is increased.
 
no! please dont go convex, it'll make the phone look ugly, place the sensor on the left and the right side of the home button (for left and right hand users), it'll be much better.
 
daveathall said:
Even so, are you saying it is easier to view a 4" screen than a 5" screen when both are held at the same distance? Because if you are you are wrong. Period.
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It would be the same (a 4" and 5" screen). The only way it would be easier would be if the screen resolution was different on the 5" screen. And 'easier' is different for different people; lower res. but bigger elements on screen is better for some, higher res. but smaller elements on screen is better for others.

An iPhone 4/4S and a 5 have different screen sizes but their on-screen elements are the same size. To put it another way, if you placed a printed book at a comfortable reading distance, and then covered up a portion of the page (retaining the distance), it wouldn't be any harder to read the uncovered section…
 
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