Its another option which is good.
For example maybe I need to write something down, would be easier to just place the phone in front of me.
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New iPhones Still Expected to Launch in June/July, Fingerprint Sensor for iPhone 5S?
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Its another option which is good.
For example maybe I need to write something down, would be easier to just place the phone in front of me.
We finally get some Mac Pro news, and it's immediately started dropping as a headline due to more itoys stuff.
...and rabble rabble, get off my lawn you kids!
I'm all for the sensor if they can do it right and it leads to phones becoming bricks in the wrong hands (not that it will do that immediately or ever, just hoping mostly).
I think the cheaper iphone 5 would be a great idea. When the iphone 5 was released a lot of my relatives bought the iphone 4.
Unfortunately there experience with the iphone 4 made them dislike the iphone product line. The iphone 4 is very sluggish running iOS 6 and it cannot take in the features such as Siri and turn-by-turn navigation.
A cheaper iphone would allow Apple to rid themselves of the iphone 4S and 4. They would then have a phone product line that is capable of using all the features no matter the price you pay.
I really don't care if the iphone 5s has a considerable hardware upgrade. My greatest concern is the iOS.
They really need to freshen up the experience with the iOS.
Unfortunately there experience with the iphone 4 made them dislike the iphone product line. The iphone 4 is very sluggish running iOS 6 and it cannot take in the features such as Siri and turn-by-turn navigation.
A cheaper iphone would allow Apple to rid themselves of the iphone 4S and 4. They would then have a phone product line that is capable of using all the features no matter the price you pay.
I really don't care if the iphone 5s has a considerable hardware upgrade. My greatest concern is the iOS.
They really need to freshen up the experience with the iOS.
Idea of this rumor reminds me of the HP iPaq with Biometric Fingerprint sensor http://bit.ly/ipaqfinger from 2002!
http://bit.ly/ipaqfinger from 2002!I have a upgrade in a couple of weeks. I'm going to go ahead and get a iphone 5, and giv Apple another chance. But apple has 18 months to really impress me or else I will look into a Galaxy (Whatever number it will be). And that's not with a silly finger print scanner. I dont have CIA documents on my phone.
I just hope iOS7 is dramatically different. We've been essentially using the same OS for 5 years now!
Yeah even tho we're 6 versions deep, it doesn't feel like much has changed. Just a wide selection of Apps. The phones are A LOT faster now so that helps, but very little has changed since 2007.
It seems like an AWESOME idea! Obviously you don't have an enforced password on yours, because I do and it sucks having to enter it all the time. A fingerprint sensor under the home button would be amazing!
I don't really see why Apple should cater to people who can't afford the regular iPhone. I think that sets a pretty bad precedent.
And android has been the same for 4 years. What's your point? You want widgets and themes? :/
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What's the galaxy going to give you that you don't have now? GarageBand? iTunes U? iPhoto? iMovie? Photostream? Backup and restore? Please I want to know what the galaxy has besides a large screen with neon greens and blue whites, heavy, un-pocketable, plastic phone.
The finger print sensor will probably integrated into the home button Would be cool to link that with passwords or passcodes so you don't have to enter them all the time. More secure too.
Oh I do find it funny that they'll come in multiple colors for the cheaper ones. Guess that's just to entice parents to buy their kids iPhones instead of ipod touches?
Would be cool to link that with passwords or passcodes so you don't have to enter them all the time. More secure too.Oh I do find it funny that they'll come in multiple colors for the cheaper ones. Guess that's just to entice parents to buy their kids iPhones instead of ipod touches?
Precisely what I was thinking. I don't see iOS 7 coming out in June unless it's announced in the next couple of weeks.
It depends how you define "solid phones." The way I look at it, Samsung (or any other Android OEM, for that matter) is offering very little in the way of innovation. A .15" increase in screen size? Faster CPU/GPU? More PPI that will burn through your battery even faster, use up a lot the newly added horsepower but with no discernible difference in visual quality? And will that screen be color calibrated or have the same over-saturated colors and not enough brightness that's typical of Sammy OLEDs?
But it looks GREAT on paper, and that's what they're aiming for.
Put it this way; if the intelligent flash on the 5S works as advertised, that upgrade will be more important and more useful to a lot more consumers than all the above spec increases combined. So from a user experience and usefulness standpoint, the 5S could be a more solid phone than whatever other phones you had in mind with just that one feature. And that doesn't even include whatever features are in store with fingerprint recognition, iOS 7 and iCloud.
Same. And hopefully most if not everything iOS 7 has to offer is available on the iPhone 5.
Although, if they do add finger print technology, I guess we'll see new OS features that only work with that feature. Could be their selling point for upgrading, differentiating it from the iPhone 5...
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I hope there's a way to get the $350 iPhone without a data plan. That would be a very nice upgrade to my iPod touch/dumbphone combo. Right now I don't think the carriers let you bring an unlocked smartphone onto a voice only plan. Really don't like that restriction.