Agreed - though I do think being able to better control shadows, midrange and highlights with more precision (alone) would help.
It would be a welcome feature like you said.
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Samsung Reveals Galaxy S5 With Home Button Fingerprint Sensor, Accompanying 'Gear Fit' Band
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Agreed - though I do think being able to better control shadows, midrange and highlights with more precision (alone) would help.
It would be a welcome feature like you said.
Apple has to be selective in which apps they buy..ultimately its not their job really to tinker around with apps unless its extremely important to iOS..Apple's job for the default camera app is to make it as user freindly and easy to use for your average iPhone user. Leave all the crazy and technical stuff (niche) for the development world. This is why i think comments about "apple should have bought whatsapp" are quite unimportant, because its really not apple's core business.
I am definitely not in the camp of "Apple should just buy them"
I was saying that tongue in cheek.
Love it, my next phone will be a S5 instead 5S, tobe serious i need what S5 does!
I'm not against it because it's non-Apple, I'm against it because it's pretty much more of the same, especially from Samsung. Just another feature implemented to have one more checkbox filled in on the marketing materials. Just because the S5's fingerprint sensor is integrated into the home button doesn't mean that it's even remotely as practical to use as the fingerprint sensor in the 5s.
In that regard, Samsung failed in making biometric security usable. Some people will use it, but it will be a hassle to always hold your phone with two hands (maybe Android users are used to this already?) and swipe downward with your finger, so most people won't bother activating it, leading to even more and fancier unsecured phones.
I'm guessing you just clicked and wanted to post your reply. Because much like what you're accusing Samsung of - you've now just done. Copied SOOOO many people before youTeasing - but seriously - this comment has been made quite often in this thread. I'd love to read something more original..
So tell me - do you not find a heart sensor in a phone new? How about one-click child "section" on a phone. What about water resistance? What about a secured photo section? What about an extreme battery saver mode?
I guess we see what we want to see and then bury our heads in the sand for everything else...
If you participate in a discussion it's pretty impossible to not say stuff that has been said already. But if you think that it's comparable to copy the way Samsung does, to repeat something in a thread, you're way out of my league.
And if you re-read my comment I didn't say the stuff you mentioned is not good - but does it make up for copying other particular features or design choices, just to not miss out? Come on - their finger print reader looks terrible in the first-hands videos and is only add'ed in the current shape because they wanted Apple to miss out on a unique feature.
And no - the software features you mention with Child mode, secure photo section and more doesn appeal to me. The heart rate sensor is something I want in my running watch - not my phone.
Water proof is pretty amazing though (not new - Sony did it way before) and really something I hope is getting more and more normal in the market space. Not to go swimming with my phone, but to be able to film 120fps videos while snowboarding is a pretty fantastic feature.
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Exactly my point. Samsung might be "FIRST!!!11!!" to a couple of features JUST to do it (Samsung Gear?! Come on it sucked and got trashed in the reviews but they absolutely wanted to beat Apple to the market with it)...
It's not to be first that matters - It's to be best, innovative and original. Samsung def. aren't any of those. I don't hate anything but Apple, but simply can't see why people choose their cheap plastic crap instead of the nice Sony's, HTC's and such.
GS5 is water resistant (Z2 is water proof)..I suppose the F varient may come in as a full water proof version as samsung tries to further distance itself..The way their flagship lines are going..April : Flagship S5...June: Flagship F..October : Flagship Note4..
Samsung wants to throw everything and the kitchen sink into the market...Thats been their MO..Health is again gaining traction with apple and google taking it seriously...Lets throw a bunch of devices at the consumer even if that involves doing a total flip flop on a 300 dollar wearable that they sold just 5 months ago (changing the OS)..One goes to samsung for the ability to choose from a seemingly endless selection of devices..not for looking at one perfectly engineered device that tries to peg itself as the king of form and function...Aesthetically HTC is no1 in the android domain, and many feel that their software on top of android is much closer to what android itself would like compared to touchwiz and its 8 GB of bloat.
But thats not the way samsung does it..The japanese know this and have had expereinced this over the years. Samsung looks at what the industry is doing, and tries to replcate that using its enormous industrial machine..Apple and google are driving innovations in smartphones..samsung is piggy backing on google and closely implementing what both google and apple are looking to do.
I don't think people really understand how the world works.
X technology is invented by scientists, inventors, innovators.
Nobody knows how to use X technology until Y company perfects it. This is called applied science, i.e. engineering, design.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMN companies copy said approach.
When we talk about everyone copying Apple, it's like everyone's copying the trend maker.
Apple's the trend maker, they've never in my opinion ever been a "inventor" or heavy into scientific research.
Apple is an engineering company, it's applied science, not science.
Everyone could've made the bubble colored iMacs Apple did, the technology was there. Everyone could've made gorilla glass hardened glass, the technology was LITERALLY sitting there at Corning until Mr. Jobs came down and told them to build a bazillion of them.
I 100% guarantee that feature would not have been included, had it not been an Apple rumour
If you can guarantee 100% you will also be able to provide evidence in support of your claim.
With my camera HD video maxes out at 29 minutes regardless of whether I install a 4GB card or a 32GB one. There is a file size limit imposed by the device. I think a device advertising 4K capability would have a higher limit, but I wouldn't count on it.
Why can't you unlock with finger scanner with swipe of your thumb holding it one handed? How do you come to this very naive conclusion? Just because you saw some videos with people doing it with 2 hands and assume that is the only way to do it.
Search for it and you will find that it is possible and as easy to unlock with a swipe of the thumb holding the phone one-handed.
I guess the actual reviewers who tested the actual device and came to this conclusion are naive too?
Not the reviewers since I can't read their minds tell whether they thought it can't be done using thumb. But I can surely say about the poster who posted that conclusion. See the following to dispel that naive conclusion:-
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s5-fingerprint-scanner-reader,26135.html
Fortunately you don't have to read their minds at all, since they actually wrote it:
(Emphasis mine.)
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5441668/samsung-galaxy-s5-announcement-launch
One can take any 5 inch phone and try to hold it with one hand and do a consistent straight swipe from the bottom of the screen to over the home button and its going to be very tough to do it repeatedly and with high degree of stability and accuracy. Add a heavy, bulky case (as most do to their 5 inch phones) and it will only get harder. I guess one could do it if one wanted to prove a point just as one could type a 200 word email with one hand on a 5.7 inch phone if one were to bet on it
..but it won't exactly be comfortable which would hinder widespread adoption of such a method of unlocking the phone (i.e. to use one hand to both hold the phone and unlock it)..
It's quite easy to understand that a swipe movement while keeping a 5+" smartphone with a single hand is not easy nor comfortable .... especially near to the bottom edge of the device ....
Sure, if you trained it by holding the phone in one hand and swiping vertically downward with the thumb from the other hand, then it won't be easy to duplicate that same feat while holding it with one hand.
Reportedly though, if you train the phone with your thumb while holding it in one hand to start with, it'll work.
We'll know for sure once more people get one to play with.
Reportedly though, if you train the phone with your thumb while holding it in one hand to start with, it'll work.
We'll know for sure once more people get one to play with.