Samsung Admits Major Security Flaw in Galaxy S10 Under-Screen Fingerprint Sensor

[Azathoth123]

Do you consider the first iPhone rock solid? Yea thought so.
what about iPhone 3g? Let’s face it. New technology will have issues. Doesn’t mean the technology is bad and not useful. For a first time shot at a foldable phone I give Samsung some props to being something to market that is really good to be honest. Much better than previous new tech the last 10 years.

‘Really good’? Most of them broke within a week and the MSRP was $2,000 (minus a dollar IIRC). If that’s really good, Apple should change their address to ‘1 Easy Street, Cupertino, CA’.

And their fingerprint sensor getting fooled by a screen protector, is that ‘really good’ too? i have to admit though, it is a novel approach! Lol.

 

[x-evil-x]

‘Really good’? Most of them broke within a week and the MSRP was $2,000 (minus a dollar IIRC). If that’s really good, Apple should change their address to ‘1 Easy Street, Cupertino, CA’.

And their fingerprint sensor getting fooled by a screen protector, is that ‘really good’ too? i have to admit though, it is a novel approach! Lol.

im talking the revised one they just released.
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Yes. Yes I do. Certainly in its time. It may not have been perfect but it certainly wasn’t a prototype.

it was hugely flawed. so was the 3g. safari would crash if you used it for anything demanding. All I'm saying is new technology will have its flaws and hating on new brand new tech is stupid to me.
People should embrace new technology to push the envelope for all these companies. Its what will get us out of this stagnant similarly pattern we have been in for 5 years. No innovations just small increases in speed and camera improvement. The 6s from 2015 is still a great working phone that is plenty fast for most everybody.
Id say since 2015 technology has been on coast mode and Samsung releasing a new technology and people hating on it because its a different brand that what they follow is crazy to me. Ive had every iPhone, only own Macs, iPads, apple watches ect... and I love seeing new tech from whoever makes it because I'm a tech lover at heart.
For a first time released flippable phone id say Samsung did one hell of a job. stop hating people we have it good open your mind.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Samsung releasing a new technology and people hating on it because its a different brand that what they follow is crazy to me.

Err nope. Not in my case, anyway. Nothing to do with the technology being a different brand. Everything to do with the fact that it doesn't actually work properly 🤡

 

[TopherMan12]

it was hugely flawed. so was the 3g. safari would crash if you used it for anything demanding.

It was not "hugely flawed". Come on. That is pure hyperbole. Safari crashed because websites were not designed for mobile, but for the most part it worked. Regardless, that does not make the original or 3G iPhone "hugely flawed".

 

[Azathoth123]

im talking the revised one they just released.
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it was hugely flawed. so was the 3g. safari would crash if you used it for anything demanding.

True, but it wasn’t Safari, it was the network. At that time, networks didn’t have the capacity for a full on web browser in a phone. Steve Jobs spoke to that at D8 I believe, and said (AT$T, pun intended) was building out their network as fast as they could get hardware. and he was telling it like it was, and acknowledged the crashes.

But this was an inflection point in carriers/networks, you went from selling call minutes to selling bandwith. After the iPhone, carriers could sell data ’packages’, not before.

Conserving network bandwith at the expense of features was basically the downfall of RIM.

 

[Azathoth123]

As long as we’re talking about droids, here’s an update on the Puxel 4 face unlock flaw. No fix for months.

Google says a fix for Pixel 4 face unlock is “months” away

Google says to use the “lockdown” feature to stop others from unlocking your phone.

arstechnica.com

 

[x-evil-x]

It was not "hugely flawed". Come on. That is pure hyperbole. Safari crashed because websites were not designed for mobile, but for the most part it worked. Regardless, that does not make the original or 3G iPhone "hugely flawed".

That was just one of the issues. The phone worked decently well but it was far from perfect. I had cracks around the headphone jack numerous times and apple replaced the phone each of then. IPhone 4 the antenna band issue. All I’m saying is last 3-4 years technology has plateaued. There needs to be innovators that push things past this meh upgrade year after year.
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Err nope. Not in my case, anyway. Nothing to do with the technology being a different brand. Everything to do with the fact that it doesn't actually work properly 🤡

You’ve tried one? Or just talking like you know?

 

[I7guy]

...All I’m saying is last 3-4 years technology has plateaued. There needs to be innovators that push things past this meh upgrade year after year....

My blanket statement is technology hasnt plateaued and there has been plenty of innovation in the last few years.

But I forget how this dovetails into the Samsung fingerprint issue.

 

[RHustler]

What are you typically doing on your phone when using it while still wearing your helmet? It gets hot in full face helmets, I never left mine on longer than necessary. Maybe just take it off? You’d similarly have to take off your gloves to pull your phone out of your pocket and use it.

I assume you live somewhere hot? I don't.

It's easy for me to pull to the side of the road and quickly change something on my bar-mounted phone and then pull away again - why would I mess about with taking my glasses off, then my helmet, then putting my glasses on again so I can do something on my phone that takes 2 seconds? What about quickly changing something while stopped at some lights? Do you take your helmet off there too? Sounds risky to me.

It may be an edge case, but it's not that rare. There are lots of people that ride motorcycles that have their phone mounted on their bars for GPS etc.

 

[NickName99]

I assume you live somewhere hot? I don't.

It's easy for me to pull to the side of the road and quickly change something on my bar-mounted phone and then pull away again - why would I mess about with taking my glasses off, then my helmet, then putting my glasses on again so I can do something on my phone that takes 2 seconds? What about quickly changing something while stopped at some lights? Do you take your helmet off there too? Sounds risky to me.

It may be an edge case, but it's not that rare. There are lots of people that ride motorcycles that have their phone mounted on their bars for GPS etc.

Sounds like you bought the wrong phone for your needs. Maybe pick up an iPhone 8? Or the new A13 equipped TouchID model rumored to come out early 2020?