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Samsung Galaxy S5 to Include Home Button with Integrated Fingerprint Sensor

macduke said:
Prediction: This is the year Samsung's sales begin to drop off. The lack of innovation is telling in this "upgrade". People criticize Apple for iterating, but this is just bad. TouchID was actually an incredible iteration over existing fingerprint tech, the LED flash that can vary tonal balance is also innovative. Is it worth an upgrade from the 5? That's debatable. I know I passed (I can be patient), but I really want those features. I know many people who only pick Samsung for a larger screen. Take that away and they really don't have a preference. Maybe some of them will stay, but I already know several who would switch if given a choice of a larger iPhone. Many of these same people already own iPads. The iPhone 6 camera is also going to be incredible, and I think the TouchID payment system is really going to take off. The iWatch will blow away the Galaxy Gear, and it will take several years for any company to come close to catching up because Apple has been taking a different approach with regard to hiring people with backgrounds in medical devices. Samsung designs the obvious solution (which has already been done by Pebble and others), and Apple designs the crazy, futuristic version that defines what a watch can even be. Something that actually brings value because it can help extend your life and warn you about potential conditions before you end up in the hospital. Now that's a game changer, and that's where Apple leapfrogs once again. Look for Samsung to add simple stuff like heart rate monitors in the next version of the Gear, but nothing close to what Apple busts out.
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Samsung sells will drop because of other Android OEM's catching up. I hope Lenovo releases a phablet with Motorola quality. Or HTC release a better One device. The world is not just Samsung and Apple you know. And that's coming from a Note 3 owner. As a consumer I want the best product that will last for at least one year. I feel sorry for those tied to one brand. Heck, I might go back to iPhone if the 6 is worth it. I don't know what I'm going to get and that's the fun part; no disappointment because I'm free to do what I want.
 
How will this be implemented on the Google Play (stock Android) version? Will the finger-scanning home button just ... not work without Touchwizz?
 
Apple's touch and hold fingerprint sensor allows me to unlock the phone by one hand very quickly, just by pressing on the home button once and let the finger stay there. The "swiping" type fingerprint sensor that will be on the Samsung flagship, like the one of the HTC One Max, is a lot less convenient. It seems that Samsung really doesn't have the secret sauce of Authentec. A big strategic mistake for Google / Samsung for letting Apple acquire Authentec.
 
Samsucks is copying again. :mad:
How lame!
But at least my Android friends won't be too jealous of my iPhone 5s. :D
I tried to like Android many times, but there's nothing like iOS in performance and reliability.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Yeah, my friend had one of those. It never worked - my understanding is this type of fingerprint scanner is fundamentally flawed by requiring the user to be too precise in the way they move their finger.

I'm forecasting Samsung botches this badly enough to severely impact their sales this year.
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Typing right now using an IBM T43 Thinkpad with fingerprint scanner and it works perfectly fine. Got it over eight years ago and it has never let me down.
 
zone23 said:
How come they waited till now to implement it?
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Yes, why now and not years ago?

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apolloa said:
Well that would depend on how the software utilises it. I just think it looks cool. But I guess it could scroll information or be permanently visible no matter what the rest of the screen is doing, like you could have a full screen game going but at the top would be the signal strength, alerts, battery life, clock etc.
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To me it's the poster child for gimmick. Tech nerds, especially ones who write for tech sites are bored and will glom on to anything that's different just out of sheer boredom.
 
AppleScruff1 said:
See? Apple copied The G from Galaxy and the S. :D
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Yes, now it's just a matter of time when Samsung will copy Apples Time Machine (not backup, think "Back to the Future") so that they can go back and claim that "Galaxy" was established before Apple patented the "g" by releasing the iPhone 3G. Congratulations!
 
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