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Samsung Galaxy S5 to Include Home Button with Integrated Fingerprint Sensor
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More choices ? Samsung phone bloated with Samsung crapware won't be any choice for me ....
That's not the point. Biometric authentication has been around a long time. It's not the bloody home button. Samsung copies DESIGN, get it??
Was Samsung or Android ever really a choice for you anyway?
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Since the home button is the only "button" on most Samsung phones these days - where should they have put it. Or are you suggesting they add an element to make it awkward?
Ah, a shift of the goalposts there. Perhaps they were referring to the fact that Samsung was found to have infringed Apple patents.
Where do you get that from? And what does that have to do with what you actually said?
Samsung is just trying to check an empty box that Apple checked first. Except Samsung will use older tech that doesn't work as well, because that's all they have available to them at a price point they can manage.
No one is getting sued because Samsung is not copying Apple's tech. I doubt Apple is the least bit worried either. Samsung's implementation is going to suck.
No one is getting sued because Samsung is not copying Apple's tech. I doubt Apple is the least bit worried either. Samsung's implementation is going to suck.
They can't, apple has the patents for it!
But Samsung could technically do it slightly differently and get away with it. We'll see how their implementation is, but they clearly were inspired by Apple.
why must Samsung place it in the home button, besides the obvious reason (because that's what Apple did)? why not put it, say, in the very screen itself? would coming up with a way to do that not be the very definition of innovation?
which came out how long ago? and did it have the sensor in the home button? hmm
laptops and devices that had it long before the iPhone/cell phones maybe
then why didn't Samsung reason one in all ribs time? why did they wait until now, immediately after apples best selling flagship device?
and please show us a single other device with the reader in a home button.
or just admit -- your boys copy ideas. better ideas than what they come up with on their own.
Actually I probably owned more droids than you ....
Btw don't confuse Samsung with Android.
Android kitkat could be a choice for me (I like Moto X and Nexus 5), but Samsung is a totally different thing .....
Samsung for me is just what a smartphone SHOULDN'T BE.
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Well, Google has plenty of space in their servers
Fail
Thumbs down! Samsung exclusively and repeatedly copies Apple even after getting sued for sopying and loosing.
Everybody copies...I'm just looking forward to all the wonderful phones that will be coming out this year. It's my year to upgrade.
Thumbs down! Samsung exclusively and repeatedly copies Apple even after getting sued for sopying and loosing.
It's absolutely obvious that the home button is a good place for the fingerprint sensor. That's why you cannot patent an abstract idea, the idea is obvious but the problem is to make it actually work well. The bulk of Apple's TouchID patent claims are not about the design, they are about the technology which make the sensor in the home button actually work well.
As far as I understand from the article, Samsung's fingerprint sensor seems to work in a completely different way. It might perfectly be that they implemented the same idea (fingerprint sensor on the touch button) in a different way.
I'm happy they are copying - it just shows that Apple continues to drive innovation in the field.
I find these finger print scanners bogus to be honest, what's wrong with a pin? You have one for your bank cards and they can be a lot more valuable.
I'm more interested in weather the S5 has a curved display which can show separate information down the side:
Because it look cool and is something different.
As for the fingerprint scanner itself, meh it's copied from laptops if anything, then again Apple copied it's tech from scanners I've seen at banks and night clubs where you press rather than swipe, still think they are bogus though, but Samsung will be totally copying if they stick it in the home button! I would put them as implementing retina scanning myself?
I'm more interested in weather the S5 has a curved display which can show separate information down the side:
Because it look cool and is something different.
As for the fingerprint scanner itself, meh it's copied from laptops if anything, then again Apple copied it's tech from scanners I've seen at banks and night clubs where you press rather than swipe, still think they are bogus though, but Samsung will be totally copying if they stick it in the home button! I would put them as implementing retina scanning myself?
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