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It's just a way to unlock my phone and apart from the novelty factor and coolness associated with staring at your phone in front of jealous eyes, it's slower than TouchID.
You seem to keep finding justifications for why Face ID is slower than touch ID, yet you were just saying in another thread that you planned on purchasing the iPhone X. So which is it and why so contradictory something you consider a "Novelty"?
There’s a reason why sources say android devices are a few years away from getting this tech right. It’s hard to do.
I may be buying it but I just have doubts about this tech because it had problems onstage.
If memory serves me correctly, Samsung galaxy had the new Iris scanner a few years back, OLED screens a few years back, always on display a few years back, larger screen and less bezels, etc. etc, but their prices are still lower than apples. You want to run that by me one more time OP.
imagine millions of people receiving their iPhone X on the 3th of November and FaceID will not work convienent or properly.. Millions will return their iPhone X.
First I was very sceptic about FaceID, but now after a few weeks I am giving Apple the benefit of the doubt and just gonna try out my iPhone X for 13 days, if FaceID doesn't work in a way I like, just gonna return it within 14 days and continue with Plan B.
Untill I recieve my iPhone X there's no way I can judge FaceID beforehand. Just my 2 nickles! (or dimes, or cents...whatever I got left after ordering the iPhone X
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life can be so easy!
First I was very sceptic about FaceID, but now after a few weeks I am giving Apple the benefit of the doubt and just gonna try out my iPhone X for 13 days, if FaceID doesn't work in a way I like, just gonna return it within 14 days and continue with Plan B.
Untill I recieve my iPhone X there's no way I can judge FaceID beforehand. Just my 2 nickles! (or dimes, or cents...whatever I got left after ordering the iPhone X
)life can be so easy!
OP was asking about breakthrough tech and the higher cost of the iPhone 10, not whether it works or not.
Lumia 950 and 950XL featured Windows Hello which combines facial mapping and recognition along with retina scan. Basically identical solution, if not better given the addition of retina scanning. I have tried the Windows phone and it worked extremely well. Any lighting conditions, sunglasses.
Apple is not a true innovator. They are what some would call a “close follower.” True innovations are risky. When the technology matures enough and the market is ripe for widespread adaptation, Apple joins in and usually blows everyone out of the water. They are extremely good at this...
But, yeah, facial recognition in mobile phones has been done well before Face ID and has been used precisely the same way - to unlock the device and authenticate other apps.
yup that's the response that comes up often....dont like it, don't buy/use it. Never said the phone is transmitting data secretly. Im saying there is a possibility that the full extent of what these gadgets can do is ever explained fully to consumers. And we don't know how exactly they can be compromised in the future.
The only thing is, if Apple had an engineer as smart as me, then we would get a device with Face ID that could skip directly into the home screen like you can on the current iPhones with Touch ID. Plenty of people are not at all interested in seeing the Lockscreen every single time they open their device. So let’s use our intellect to design a methodology wherein you can jump from the Lockscreen to the home screen without having to swipe up every single time:
If you set it to ‘Glance to open’ then a user either presses the side button or presses the display to make the device remain on the Lockscreen, while a tap of the display or raise to wake will always cause it to jump straight to the home screen after it unlocks. Simple solution that Apple engineers aren’t and never would be smart enough to implement. Don’t worry, I have plenty of other ideas they couldn’t possibly come up with, that are categorically superior to how they’re doing things.
If Touch ID was under the display Apple may not have pursued face ID. In which case the notch would not be there as all of the additional sensors would not be required. Other android OEM’s have made near bezeless displays (the x still has some bezel) and did not need a notch because they don’t have all those sensors.
The one area where the iris scanner thrives is unlocking in pitch black.
My opinion and my use of the device is the only thing that matters when I make my decision to purchase or not
I told you multiple times I don't pick up the phone at all to type or do certain tasks. It sits far off to the right of my desk but you like to keep making excuses for face id.
I told you multiple times I don't pick up the phone at all to type or do certain tasks. It sits far off to the right of my desk but you like to keep making excuses for face id.
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fwiw..
the lock screen is shown every time you use touchID.
if you haven't noticed that before, it's likely you won't notice it when using faceID either.
I been doing it for years.
Takes a fraction of a second with any of my fingers on the home and it's unlocked in no time.
It just works great.
Not unnatural or impossible at all
Takes a fraction of a second with any of my fingers on the home and it's unlocked in no time.
It just works great.
Not unnatural or impossible at all
No its not. When you press the button and quickly lift up your finger TouchID didnt get enough time to authenticate your fingerprint which is why you are shown the lockscreen or when you just want to see notifications and you use an unregistered finger. When TouchID authenticates your finger,it will unlock the lockscreen for you and go to home. You dont need to swipe up after it authenticates your finger. With FaceID, after it recognises your Face you have to swipe up on the lockscreen to go to home. This seems cumbersome imo.
No, When Apple does it, it works. Have you tried the 2D facial recognition features that have been on phones for the past year or 2? Or even as recent as iris scanning on galaxy 8 HORRIBLE! Absolutely horrible. And while we can't really comment on how well Face ID works in the real world yet, I can almost guarantee that's it's gonna be 1000 times better then anything else we've seen to date. And it is absolutely breakthrough. In fact, other companies are at least 2+ years behind the tech used in the true depth camera system. http://bgr.com/2017/10/02/iphone-vs-android-camera-truedepth-face-id/
Hint: that’s why I said ‘after it unlocks’. I’m referring to ‘Rest to unlock’ wherein you press the home button, and it instantly scans your finger and takes you immediately into the home screen with no other action required, and no unnecessary delay on the Lockscreen.
I don't deny anything you are stating. Apple improves on technology that already exists.
Doesn't, by my definition of the word, make it a breakthrough. Scan back through my posts and you will find how I am defining it. Apparently that's a different definition than what some are defining it by.
Pull your head from under ground and realize that these are breakthrough technologies.
Several analysts have said that most of Apple's competition are at least two years behind Apple in terms of facial recognition and processors.
That's significant, even if you don't want to believe it.
Several analysts have said that most of Apple's competition are at least two years behind Apple in terms of facial recognition and processors.
That's significant, even if you don't want to believe it.