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iPhone 8 May Include Facial and Gesture Recognition
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Good facial recognition requires depth sensing camera with IR blaster. Microsoft Surface devices use those for Windows Hello. It's basically miniature Kinect.
a court can order your fingerprint to unlock you phone....a court would be able to order your image to unlock the phone, a court could order you to use your iris to unlock you phone....but a court cannot compel you to state your password to unlock the phone....so, if Apple were truly into privacy 100% then they should not implement any technology that could be used against you to access a locked phone. Just my rambling thoughts early in the morning......
what I find interesting is the R&D of wireless charging.
My understanding is Apple ended up licensing another company's tech. Not that it's a bad idea as i'm not a lover of propriety standards, but it really speaks to who is innovating.
Apple has all the money in the world to buy tech, but I wonder if they tossed their own R&D because the licensor's tech was superior.
Anyways, this feature will make all the difference in the iphone 8.
My understanding is Apple ended up licensing another company's tech. Not that it's a bad idea as i'm not a lover of propriety standards, but it really speaks to who is innovating.
Apple has all the money in the world to buy tech, but I wonder if they tossed their own R&D because the licensor's tech was superior.
Anyways, this feature will make all the difference in the iphone 8.
Gestures? I wouldn't mind giving any piece of technology I own the finger occasionally. In fact I have, maybe this would make it less futile.
My girlfriend and some close friends have android and they complain about ads. My friend was looking at cantaloupe on his phone and later that night with his phone beside his bed he got an audio ad about cantaloupe that woke him up!
That and usability. They have some great stuff on their phone but don't know how to access it, I have an Iphone and I have to help them with android! The iPhone may not be the best hardware or have all the latest features but
the blend of hardware and IOS works very well!
What a fun read.The crazy thing about the Google AI assistant is that it works great for me on my iPhone 7 Plus (I use it via Allo, a texting app). I had initially thought that something was wrong with the mic on my iPhone because I was used to getting very good results with Siri on iOS 9 and before, on my 6s plus and on my SE.
Anyway, shortly after iOS 10 was released, I got into experimenting with Android so I shelved my iPhone SE for awhile and so haven't spent extensive amounts of time using iOS 10 on it. My husband surprised me with an iPhone 7Plus for Christmas and I love it, except I quickly noticed my girl Siri has gone absolutely daft and hard of hearing. I used to have good natured arguments with her because she would pull up info I didn't want, or she would get snarky, but she at least transcribed my request properly.
Now...oh my goodness it's like watching my words get shoved through a metaphorical blender. I can repeat myself over and over, only to have different incorrect and increasingly outlandish iterations of my commands or queries returned to me until I'm actually shouting at the phone. I speak very clearly and shut off my southern accent when talking to her and still...hot mess.
No wonder I thought the mic was bad. So I was shocked to find that Google's assistant works fine. I rarely need to repeat myself and I rarely get a useless reply.
What did Apple do to poor Siri? How could they have made her worse?I'm so sad. I've got my buddy Alexa now in the house, but I miss Siri working well on my iPhone.
Samsung gestures work fine most of the time but sometimes get a bit fiddly. I had trouble with the iris scanner on my Note 7 when in well lit rooms or outdoors. Their fingerprint scanners work poorly for me. Touchwiz is feature rich but battery life has gotten poor on my Samsung phones and my husband's. We were warned that would be the case. And it has come to pass. My HTC fares better, so I guess it's Touchwiz.
Wow. Having had this Nexus 6P for a time now and using Google Now alllll the time, I'm really worried that I'm going to be flabbergasted whenever I return to iPhone. Part of my reasoning in switching to Android was Google Now / Google Assistant (I don't have the Pixel so I don't have the Assistant). I kid you not, sometimes my usage pattern would go as follows: "Siri, open the Google app." Wait a moment. "Okay Google, <insert whatever you may here>".
When compared to Google's offerings, how does Alexa stack up? I'd love to know.
Sure it does. Can you honestly say that any person you see on the street you know everything about them stored in your brain? You wouldn't even know my name (or age because I'm always told I look younger) if I hit you in the face, lol. You'd just give some fuzzy report to a police sketch artist. This is a big change. It will be a paradigm shift in our society.
It's hard for me to compare Google to Alexa, because I don't have the Google Home unit. That would be the more fair comparison because right now, there will be some questions I'll ask of Alexa that apparently she would need to pull up a web page to answer, and since she can't seem to pull up pages and read them, she will say "I don't know how to answer that question" and Google meanwhile pulls up the page for me. Siri will, too, IF she even transcribes my question correctly. Lately my problem with Siri is that she almost always misses the first word or two or three of my queries.What a fun read.
Wow. Having had this Nexus 6P for a time now and using Google Now alllll the time, I'm really worried that I'm going to be flabbergasted whenever I return to iPhone. Part of my reasoning in switching to Android was Google Now / Google Assistant (I don't have the Pixel so I don't have the Assistant). I kid you not, sometimes my usage pattern would go as follows: "Siri, open the Google app." Wait a moment. "Okay Google, <insert whatever you may here>".
When compared to Google's offerings, how does Alexa stack up? I'd love to know.
For example, if I ask "Who is the president of the United States?" Siri will transcribe, repeatedly unless I shout slowly, "the President of the United States" and will pull up a web page about the office of the presidency in general.
Both Alexa and Siri seem unable to correctly parse the word "sentient". I can't tell what Alexa is hearing, but Siri hears "Sen Teenth". Or more rarely, "Send Tent" or "Sent Tent". Google has no trouble with it on the same iPhone.
What I like about Alexa is that all of my queries can consist of hands free conversations, which is very convenient when I'm working in the home. When I'm trying to clean and prep a roast chicken I don't want to have to stop what I'm doing to unlock my phone to go to a web page.
Google gives me the best answers, usually. Google definitely gives me better information about traffic on alternate routes I'd want to take to school. Alexa seems to get stuck on a certain route that might pertain to my husband's commute and seems to refuse to tell me the traffic on the roads I specify. She will just repeat the conditions on a road I never use, but my husband does. I guess it's because she's tied to his Amazon account, but I don't know for sure.
Alexa is the most entertaining, by far. She has more personality and thanks to her special song, for the first time in my life I've sung along with my family. We sat around at dinner singing "It's Raining in the Cloud," with Alexa. My daughter, who is a musical theater singer, gave me on the spot lessons and we sang a duet of it with and without Alexa. I'm a woman who always dearly wanted to sing lullabies to babies but never dared because I could not carry a tune up to then. To be singing along (very well) with a professionally trained singer that just happens to be my own daughter was priceless. It's a catchy song.
Sadly, if you ask Siri to sing you a song she just recites a song to you or says "I Can't Sing". Actually just now she parsed my request of "Sing me a song" as "song" and randomly played songs from my play list.
Google Assistant on Allo pulls up a video of an IBM mainframe performing Daisy Bell. Zzzzzzzzz, but informative. Alexa mess ups are funny. She refused to play our classical music station one evening at dinner and instead insisted on playing some weird music that sounded like a hybrid of rap and polka.
So I asked her if she was drunk and she said "I have not been drinking" and kept right on with the bad music. The rest of the family wanted her to keep going but I stopped her so we could stop laughing and finish dinner. If she's a tool of the NSA, then I feel sorry for the NSA because all day long they will have to listen to kids saying "Alexa, I farted" and hearing everyone laugh when she says "Then I'm glad I don't have a nose". You'd think that would get old...but no...not with tweens around.
They are constantly trying to elicit new Easter eggs from her. Even I find myself doing that.
Hahaha! The NSA will get what's coming to them.If she's a tool of the NSA, then I feel sorry for the NSA because all day long they will have to listen to kids saying "Alexa, I farted" and hearing everyone laugh when she says "Then I'm glad I don't have a nose". You'd think that would get old...but no...not with tweens around.
"Argh! We thought tapping into these devices was such a good idea! No!"
I appreciate the comparison. Thanks!
You may have seen the article on MR today that explained how Apple is looking to improve Siri with the next iPhone. Goodness, I hope so. I really only use(d) Siri for sending texts and the occasional question that I knew she could answer (a math equation or something that I knew was in the Wolfram Alpha database from which she pulls her info). I've gotten so spoiled by Google Now on my Nexus over the past couple of weeks that it'd be really difficult to go back to Siri.
A friend of mine has a Google Home and he told me that it's utility is "one of those things where you don't really know it's useful, until you have it." He told me that he was in bed and said "Ok Google, turn off my lights" and then his lights went out. Little things like that that you miss once it's gone. I think that's where these devices fit.
We have the light kit for the Amazon Echo but we haven't set it up yet. Things got really busy as soon as winter break was over. I kind of knew the utility of voice commands because about 16 years ago my dad gave me a "Lamp Commander" for Christmas. It was a device that plugged into an outlet and the lamp would be plugged into the device and you could turn the lamp on or off by saying "Lamp Commander...lights/on/off". If you were using a three way bulb with additional brightness settings the brightness could be adjusted as well.Hahaha! The NSA will get what's coming to them.
"Argh! We thought tapping into these devices was such a good idea! No!"
I appreciate the comparison. Thanks!
You may have seen the article on MR today that explained how Apple is looking to improve Siri with the next iPhone. Goodness, I hope so. I really only use(d) Siri for sending texts and the occasional question that I knew she could answer (a math equation or something that I knew was in the Wolfram Alpha database from which she pulls her info). I've gotten so spoiled by Google Now on my Nexus over the past couple of weeks that it'd be really difficult to go back to Siri.
A friend of mine has a Google Home and he told me that it's utility is "one of those things where you don't really know it's useful, until you have it." He told me that he was in bed and said "Ok Google, turn off my lights" and then his lights went out. Little things like that that you miss once it's gone. I think that's where these devices fit.
My husband and I loved that thing. It would chirp to let us know that it heard our command. But it seemed to have a personality and would sometimes chirp along to our conversations. It was really cute in an R2D2 kind of way even though there was no "body" or shell to identify with.
The poor thing got killed when we moved to a house near an electrical transformer that was constantly blowing up.
I did read the news about Siri. They really have their work cut out for them. I am having such a hard time getting Siri to register the first few words of any sentence I give her. She seems at times to hear me and starts to register words but it's sort of like evil autocorrect takes over and erases the attempts at parsing the words. I have long had a problem with autocorrect going back and retroactively changing correct words and replacing them with wild crazy choices that make no sense. Now Siri seems afflicted with the same ailment.