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Samsung Galaxy S5 to Include Home Button with Integrated Fingerprint Sensor
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Seriously? That's like saying you want a sexy sports car because it'll look awesome but you don't really care if it runs well.
As for me, I'll take performance over aesthetics any day.
I'm sure this type of reaction wouldn't happen if the entire Android world wasn't predicting for years that fingerprint scanning would suck and cause security concerns...then call it "just a gimmick" at launch.
Missed my point a bit. I wasn't the one trying to slam either company.
Technology advances. And while kudos goes to Apple for creating touch ID which seems to be working well - the idea that other companies (Samsung or not) weren't trying to evolve their technology and/or are riding the wave of success of other companies shouldn't be surprising nor condemned. Ultimately the consumer wins.
I think some Apple enthusiasts forget that Apple was very late to the cell phone industry. I don't say that as a slam. It's a fact. And they benefited from all the trial, error, R&D, etc that others went through before they brought the iPhone to the market.
Copying doesn't mean what some people think it means. It's used as a epithet.
The swipe move seems like it would be hard to pull off one handed since the button is so far down on a big phone. This is especially the case if the thumb must be in a vertical position. However, if folks are using this, they will be opening their phone dozens of times per day. So I bet any user who uses it will get very good at swiping the right way. So i wouldn't worry about the speed issue. The user will learn the right speed.
Except...
Now this comment is funny because if Apple, via one of its midia spin event announced similar, the fanbois would be heralding it as a major step forward. Admit it, even though the copy like crazy and break an occasional patent law, Samsung CAN innovate. And I'll bet $5 right now that when Apple announces their bigger, faster phone in a few months, the screen resolution will be way up there as well.
Now this comment is funny because if Apple, via one of its midia spin event announced similar, the fanbois would be heralding it as a major step forward. Admit it, even though the copy like crazy and break an occasional patent law, Samsung CAN innovate. And I'll bet $5 right now that when Apple announces their bigger, faster phone in a few months, the screen resolution will be way up there as well.
Wonder where they got that idea from?
This style one? Motorola, or IBM/Lenovo. The Atrix had this a few years ago, sucked badly. And my work issued laptops have had them for a decade... I use my key fob to log into the VPN instead. Faster...
Definitely not a tap and go experience like the 5S.
Apple has the most successful fingerprint sensor in the smartphone market, and it surely isn't working out for every user. Apple even states that statistically, some 10% of users it won't work with at all. Other users have issues that prevent it from working reliably, or degenerating over time. Still others don't have a need for that security at all and don't use it. It's not an easy technology to tame.
Samsung will need to get accuracy in the same ballpark as Apple to be considered successful by the media, but even then, it puts them ahead of the rest of the Android pack if it is even moderately successful.
Needless to say, Apple adding phat phones to the iPhone mix will have more impact on the bottom line than Samsung adding a home button fingerprint sensor will have on Samsung's bottom line.
Samsung will need to get accuracy in the same ballpark as Apple to be considered successful by the media, but even then, it puts them ahead of the rest of the Android pack if it is even moderately successful.
Needless to say, Apple adding phat phones to the iPhone mix will have more impact on the bottom line than Samsung adding a home button fingerprint sensor will have on Samsung's bottom line.
People do that all the time......like all the time
Side comment: Also, when the shift from 720p to 1080p came, it's not like having a 1080p made the phone slow...it just means the performance could have bit even more snappy had they left the resolution at 720p. It's akin to saying you could have a 70% increase in performance if the resolution remained at 720p, or you could have a 40% increase in performance but with a 1080p screen. I'd take the 1080p screen.
The problem with iPhone's touch ID is : What good is Touch ID with-out NFC ? They miss the whole point in my opinion. That kind of security only makes sense for money.
I know a bunch of people with the 5S and they don't even use the Touch ID
I know a bunch of people with the 5S and they don't even use the Touch ID
That's not entirely true. Copying means one company innovates while the other one mimics (instead of innovating and bringing something new) Not sure how this is good for us consumers? Good for us is when all these tech companies work hard to bring us new and unique stuff, instead of copying each other.
Yes Apple definitely was the first with that. No other company before Apple had integrated a fingerprint sensor into a smartphone's home button until Apple did it. Now here is Samsung trying to do the same. That's why they are the laughingstock of the tech industry.
They suffer from a complete lack of innovation and when they do try, you get such abominations as the Galaxy Gear. And they are the leading Android vendor. No wonder everyone considers Android as second rate.
The swipe fingerprint readers that the PC industry has been using for years all basically came from Authentec, the company that Apple bought and turned into the TouchID platform they use now. Someone mentioned ThinkPad - IBM and Lenovo have used Authentec sensors in ThinkPad since the feature became available.
Samsung had better be careful in their implementation - Authentec (read: Apple) owns many useful patents in this space, and their competition is (was) largely garbage.
I thought i was on macrumors.com, not on samrumors.com.
Indeed.
Though to be honest, in the WHOLE world of Apple and what's going on, the only thing on the top news of this site for over a day has been about the Flappy Birds app.
Boy, sounds like theyre implementing ten year old PC tech. Tech, I might add, that I have never, over a half-dozen laptops, ever gotten to work for me. Versus the 5S, which works every time.
Nice work, Samsung. Knock em dead.
64bit right NOW yields very little advantage for most. But it's been lauded (not saying unjustifiably) as innovative and revolutionary. We will always seen advances in speed, memory and screens. I agree with you.