New iPhones Still Expected to Launch in June/July, Fingerprint Sensor for iPhone 5S?

[Dwalls90]

The current iPhone is 7,6mm so it ain't gonna be thinner.
It will stay the same and the low cost model will be thicker.

That's my point! The iPhone 5 model will be "in the wild" as 7.6 and 8.2

 

[Sedrick]

fingerprint sensor?

"Why didn't you call an ambulance? You have 3rd degree burns all over your chest and hands"

"My iPhone was locked and the only way to unlock it was with my burned off fingerprint"

"oh...."

Or more simply: "I cut my finger and have a band-aid on, how am I supposed to get into my phone?" Or "my right arm is full of groceries and I can't open my phone with my left..."

And the ever popular "IT TAKES TWO HANDS TO OPERATE THIS FINGER PRINT THINGY!"

 

[iPusch]

That's my point! The iPhone 5 model will be "in the wild" as 7.6 and 8.2

Yeah you're right in that.
Kinda weird to think of that -.-
But I don't really think they will call it iPhone 5...
I don't know what they can name it instead. Mehhh they will find something, maybe Tripod^^

 

[nascimento]

Crazy

I have just bought the iphone 5 a couple of months ago, if they put the same insides on a new iphone 5 at half the price I will not be happy and I can assure you it will be my last iphone. Plenty of choice now out there.

When you buy expensive top of the range products ypu dont expect them to be replaced in six months and at half the price.

I am sure im not alone on this.

 

[dainja]

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?

I agree with everyone that being able to use a fingerprint sensor rather than login and/or enter form information manually on websites would be amazing. I do most of my banking and shopping from my phone so it would definitely make it much faster/easier/safer.

 

[Fatalbert]

It is a well-known fact that with a given photo sensor size, and therefore limited light coming in, adding more pixels just reduces the pixel size to the level where each pixel just receives noise because there isn't enough light. There is for every sensor size an optimal number of pixels, and for most cheap cameras that optimum is at six megapixels. Most cheap cameras have _too many_ pixels for their sensor size.

Makes sense. I'm always skeptical of cheap, tiny cameras that have 12MP or something.

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Which Nexus are you referring to? The Nexus S (5MP), The Galaxy Nexus (5MP) or the Nexus 4? (8MP)

The Nexus 4.

 

[nikaru]

I have just bought the iphone 5 a couple of months ago, if they put the same insides on a new iphone 5 at half the price I will not be happy and I can assure you it will be my last iphone. Plenty of choice now out there.

When you buy expensive top of the range products ypu dont expect them to be replaced in six months and at half the price.

I am sure im not alone on this.

Excuse me but I still have first generation iPhone and it works great and six years old macbook. They still have the same funcionality as the day I bought them, so Im happy and make great use of them. Dont understand the need yo have the latst product. When you buy premium product like Apples ones you expect that they serve you well for a long time. Thats why there are still powerbooks in perfect shape on sell on ebay. And my iPad 2, i think i can use it for some more years, so expect that, not to have the latest one.

 

[Wiesenlooser]

Why is it so important that a phone is re-designed every year? Especially when many people are on 2 year contracts. For me where Apple seems to be falling behind is in software and services, not hardware. That's where we need to see improvements, IMO.

It isn't that important. But IF you choose to not change the design, then at least bump the specs in a significant way. How about a great battery life?

 

[AppleScruff1]

When I first joined here, I was discussing fingerprint readers on business laptops and the fact that the MBP didn't offer one as an option. I was ridiculed and laughed out of the forum since fingerprint readers are "useless, serve no purpose for security, are easily defeated, etc."

Funny how things change.