Dunno. The capacitive home button also lasted two years. I'm a bit baffled they don't even use it on new iPads and still stick to the mechanical button.
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Kuo: 2021 iPhone Will Feature Fingerprint-Sensing Display in Addition to Face ID
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Dunno. The capacitive home button also lasted two years. I'm a bit baffled they don't even use it on new iPads and still stick to the mechanical button.
Looking forward to the return of Touch ID, just hope my 8 plus can hold out until the end of 2021... if not I suppose grabbing a XR to use for a year or so won't be too much of a bother knowing it's an interim solution.
Isn't that the point though? Different wants and needs for all of us? Some don't like face id, some think it's better than touch id...etc.
My wife settled in to her new XR with face id very quickly. I haven't heard her say, I wish touch id was back...mostly because she never used touch id...entered her passcode. But she does use and like face id. Again, different strokes for different folks.
No haptic engine in iPads (currently).
The deployment of 5G to NYC isn't even on the radar, as far as I can tell. If you want a 5G phone upgrade, be it Apple or not, the big apple will not have 5g for you. I'm sure in the next few years all of this will be sorted out. But, imo, many people, won't care about 5g as much as good coverage and decent speeds. The lack of 5g on a phone, will probably not hamper some people to upgrade.
And of course a 100% accurate, robust FPS under glass would be welcome.
But is it truly backwards? I mean it's still a new hardware implementation.
They do that with every technology and then backpedal later. Long Apple tradition.
Choice is good. If they add both, who cares. Just pick the one you like.
The function is the same to the end-user, most of which don't know the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit. Let alone a slightly different way of taking a thumbprint. They will just remember that's what Apple Used to do.
Marketing People say a lot of things. Remember ‘retina display’ - your eye can’t appreciate anything better?
Big TouchID fan here so hoping it’s 2020, not 21.
For those who think this will raise prices, remember they already have the software for analyzing a print. And since other OEMs are embracing under screen readers the hardware shouldn’t be exorbitant either.
I live in NYC and my Verizon guy told me last year when he came to hook up my Fios that 5G has been under development in select neighborhoods
I agree sweaty and wet fingers are annoying or even from a days work with grease fills in your print doesn’t work Face ID all the way. First gen Face ID was kinda annoying but it works flawless now for me anyway
Yeah i also love to hoover my face above the phone to be able to read incoming messages... (not)
FaceID alone just doesnt cut it. i never had these issues with TouchID alone, FaceID annoys me every single day.
Same here. I used to frequently get failures with Touch ID. Face ID is so fast and effortless that it feels like my phone isn't locked with a passcode.
Oh my I sure hope so. I like Face ID ok but it is slower and inconvenient sometimes such as when my phone is on a desk and I want to wake it to view something quick without picking it up. I miss that about Touch ID.
Apple will launch an iPhone equipped with both Face ID and an on-display fingerprint sensor in 2021, according to a new investor note by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and obtained by MacRumors.
Kuo's prediction is based on Apple's patents related to fingerprint on display (FOD) and the continued use of the technology in Android smartphones, which together suggest to him that Apple will opt to bring fingerprint scanning back to its smartphone screens.
Apple has effaced fingerprint recognition entirely in its flagship smartphone lineup, which includes the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and LCD-based iPhone XR. Chinese mobile vendors meanwhile have gone in the opposite direction and extended the adoption of in-display fingerprint sensing technology from their premium smartphones to mid-range models, where they've proved just as popular.
Apple was widely rumored to be attempting to integrate Touch ID under the display on 2017's iPhone X, but the company ditched any form of fingerprint scanning after hitting "early line of sight" with Face ID. However, Kuo argues that Face ID and FOD technologies are "complementary, not competitive," because multi-biometrics would offer authentication processes in circumstances where one or the other was inconvenient to use or simply unavailable.
Kuo believes that GIS and Qualcomm will benefit from iPhone's adoption of FOD, with the former providing the "large-area sensing ultrasonic" technology and the latter supplying the ultrasonic FOD module and lamination. Kuo also argues that the likelihood of FOD in iPhones will increase if Apple Watch supports a biometric function in the future.
Last month, Chinese media sources claimed Apple intends to launch a new iPhone for the budget-conscious Chinese market that features an under-display fingerprint sensor. However, those reports said the fingerprint scanning would replace rather than augment Face ID technology, which was deemed too expensive.
Barclays analysts also recently claimed that 2020 model iPhones will have acoustic fingerprint technology that could allow for full-screen Touch ID, following meetings with suppliers in Apple's Asian supply chain.
Before these reports, the consensus was that Apple is done with Touch ID in smartphones, despite having explored various in-display fingerprint scanner solutions in the past, including fingerprint sensing MicroLED displays. However, Touch ID has found a new lease of life on laptop keyboards, specifically in Apple's MacBook Pro range and the MacBook Air.
Article Link: Kuo: 2021 iPhone Will Feature Fingerprint-Sensing Display in Addition to Face ID
Flagship Android phones? Try a $260 Android phone - the Xiaomi A3 has it along with a 6" AMOLED screen, face-unlock (not as secure as Apple's Face ID) etc.
Love my iPhone 7+ and that's honestly the big selling point for Apple - the effectiveness of their OS on older models. Mine runs perfectly fine. So does my wife's 10 year old white unibody Macbook (with a bit more RAM and an SSD).
But man, Apple is SOOOOOO far behind on the flagship bells and whistles it's sad. I don't buy flagships, so no bother to me, but wow.
He tends to be very reliable but he's been wrong plenty of times. He also predicted under screen touch ID for iPhone X two years ago which never happened. He's good but he's not perfect. AND LOTS CAN GET LOST IN TRANSLATION.
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Using things like autofill passwords are WAY more convenient with face ID.