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Samsung Galaxy S5 to Include Home Button with Integrated Fingerprint Sensor

There are some annoying, whiney obnoxious people on this site. Who cares if they implement a fingerprint reader. Apple did NOT invent a fingerprint reader. Having a fingerprint on a phone is a really good idea. Why should the iPhone be the only phone that can do that?

If Samsung re did their UI, then hopefully it will be more fluid. Look out iPhone then.
 
gibbz said:
Apple clearly didn't invent fingerprint recognition. However, this still seems like another "Apple does something so Samsung follows suit in their next model" kind of thing.
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If you have a look at it in a wider picture, they all copy from each other. I can name several things the iPhone has adopted in their OS to call "their own" Google/Samsung do the same. It's just getting so obvious now as both sides run out of ideas.

Fingerprint technology is not new. It's been around for decades. Apple just used another approach, and it appears so has Samsung. These things come around in fads just like Yo-Yo's

Retina technology and face recognition will be the next big thing
 
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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Yep... I have one of these on my HP work laptop and my company doesn't allow us to use it because there were cases of people being locked out of their PC because the scanner worked that poorly. haha
 
Apple's fingerprint sensor makes a lot of sense to me. It makes unlocking the iPhone 5s faster and easier by pressing on the home button.

Having a swiping fingerprint sensor makes no sense to me. It would make unlocking the phone more difficult and slower. Samsung must have a better idea surely.
 
futbalguy said:
Why would you increase the resolution beyond where it is at? Should offer no visible difference and will slow down the phone.
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Because it would offer a visible difference. Studies show that you need double the resolution before it looks almost perfect, and 8x the current resolution for absolute perfection. http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5242/1080vs4kvs8kvsmore.png (current phones are about 60 ppd)

I can't wait for 16k 480hz TV, as that is about the limits of my senses.
 
MattMJB0188 said:
There are some annoying, whiney obnoxious people on this site. Who cares if they implement a fingerprint reader. Apple did NOT invent a fingerprint reader. Having a fingerprint on a phone is a really good idea. Why should the iPhone be the only phone that can do that?

If Samsung re did their UI, then hopefully it will be more fluid. Look out iPhone then.
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If the UI is redone then these same people will say they copied Windows Phone/Apple again.

Personally I don't care. It's not all to do with the eye candy. Oh crap did I say CANDY?

.... In before King.com sues my ass
 
futbalguy said:
Why would you increase the resolution beyond where it is at? Should offer no visible difference and will slow down the phone.
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Cus it looks better. Maybe you don't notice a difference but other people do.

However it does cut performance a tad. No big deal though, I'd still rather have a higher resolution
 
Nahaz said:
If the UI is redone then these same people will say they copied Windows Phone/Apple again.

Personally I don't care. It's not all to do with the eye candy. Oh crap did I say CANDY?

.... In before King.com sues my ass
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So? Let people say they copied Apple. I didn't say they never have. But if their copying is resulting in more choices for us consumers, then so be it. Apple wants only the iPhone to be the only smartphone in the market. The Galaxy phones are nice, they just needs work on their UI.
 
new samsung

This is the phone that Apple should make but with stale Jonny Ives we will never see it. Instead it will be same old, same old and same old time frame.:(
 
Unfortunately this sounds terrible - I assume you will have to have the screen on, so press home then swipe, now your grip is at the bottom of the phone, off the screen every time you unlock. Very poor design compared to just pushing the button on the iPhone.

Also I really hope it works at any angle, as having to do a vertical swipe would be completely useless given the size of the phone, you would have to completely reorient your hand every time. But maybe they expect people to use their index fingers so always requiring two hands.
 
Hm. You need to "swipe the entire pad of your finger, from base to tip, across the home key to register your fingerprint properly". I wonder what the unlock percentage is with this kind of system? Besides, compared to Touch ID, I don't think there will be a comparison.
 
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Curun said:
Sounds like they are borrowing from 10+year old IBM tech. Think I had something like that in a pentium Thinkpad.
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My first thoughts exactly! There is a reason Apple didn't use this type of finger print sensor. It didn't meet their standards. Apple's sensor is basically transparent to use. Using it is no different than just pressing the home button like you always have (although I admit you do need to hold you finger on it for a bit longer). Samsung's sensor requires a separate physical swiping motion by the user. It is inherently less convenient and a 'bulkier' solution. Just another example of Samsung adding a feature just to say 'we have it too!" despite it being implemented not nearly as elegantly.
 
AppleInTheMud said:
Same place where Apple stole the idea ? Just a guess. Apple wasnt first with that.
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Apple actually bought this company before the first of those.

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samcraig said:
You tell us. Who had a fingerprint sensor on a phone first? Not that it matters who did it first. But just wow.


Also - credible or not - at this point it's a rumor.
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Ok, so if/when Apple releases a 5" phone or puts NFC in the iPhone...you don't think they'll be accused of copying Samsung? Hell, it's been years now and we still hear how Apple copied the notification center in Android.
 
username: said:
Apple's fingerprint sensor makes a lot of sense to me. It makes unlocking the iPhone 5s faster and easier by pressing on the home button.

Having a swiping fingerprint sensor makes no sense to me. It would make unlocking the phone more difficult and slower. Samsung must have a better idea surely.
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Apple bought Authentec... who I'm guessing was the best in the biz at the time.

Samsung wants to include a fingerprint scanner on their phones... but no one has figured out a better way to do it.
 
Curun said:
Sounds like they are borrowing from 10+year old IBM tech. Think I had something like that in a pentium Thinkpad.
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We have that on a computer at work, & it NEVER works, every time I go to the computer just for fun I swipe my finger & it NEVER worked, it has only gone through once, never again :( so maybe thats what we can expect from some song ;)
 
samcraig said:
You tell us. Who had a fingerprint sensor on a phone first? Not that it matters who did it first. But just wow.


Also - credible or not - at this point it's a rumor.
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I'm guessing the implementation in the "home" button is what's causing the copycat claims. Anyway I'm sure everyone who thinks Touch ID is nothing more than a gimmick will say the same about this. :)
 
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