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Wall Street Journal Confirms Fingerprint Sensor in New iPhone Coming Tomorrow
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If you haven't anything to hide or worry about then finger sensor fuss is nothing. I only wish they introduce a larger screen. Don't know what Apple is doing!!! To relax on their asses and letting the competition passing them. So disappointed really thinking about trying the samsung 4 or note until Apple realises that it's not what they like but what the consumers want. Give us 3 different sizes of screen to choose.
Please, just STOP this nonsense.
Making a big screen is an advance?
-- It is a choice.
Apple is telling you, go grab a bigger screen if you want one.
So why you still crying?
Pointless, innit?
Do you really think in R&D apple did not try a bigger screen?
They just chose the current one. Why?
Because they can.
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I'd be interested to know if more than one user can be set up to access a phone through the fingerprint sensor.
As we don't spend a lot of time on the phone/net away from the office/home we tend to share one primary cell phone with unlimited minutes and several 'pay as you go' phones for low volume usage. Works for us and saves ~1$K per year compared to family plans.
I would imagine the new phone can be set up for multiple users, tho' if only one user can access the phone it puts the kibosh sharing. Having said that, I'm sure our usage is a very very small minority group so it's quite possible the sensor would have to be turned off to have multiple users.
I'd be interested to know if more than one user can be set up to access a phone through the fingerprint sensor.
As we don't spend a lot of time on the phone/net away from the office/home we tend to share one primary cell phone with unlimited minutes and several 'pay as you go' phones for low volume usage. Works for us and saves ~1$K per year compared to family plans.
I would imagine the new phone can be set up for multiple users, tho' if only one user can access the phone it puts the kibosh sharing. Having said that, I'm sure our usage is a very very small minority group so it's quite possible the sensor would have to be turned off to have multiple users.
The WSJ is not Apple there what they say is still rumour. Highly plausible though (to the point of a certainty though). But still only rumour. People still think people that are not Apple can confirm Apple doings or products. I don't know why people still think this.
In short the WSJ can't confirm ****, as they are not Apple.
It sells.
Just read the assLicking reviews of the watch Samsung announced.
Either cowardice or journalists are afraid of pissing the HUGE android base by rising the bar to the high they use with Apple.
As an example of how hard it is, no police force in the world is currently capable of extracting any data from a locked iPhone (except that they have a one in thousand chance of getting a four digit passcode right in ten guesses and then it is game over).
Apparently some NSA employees are Fandroids.
But consider this: If you are an NSA employee, then you can never admit to it in public. First because your employer doesn't allow it, second because you are most likely to get your face smashed in in most places in the world.
So which is better, finger print scan using the home button or visual recognition using the camera and software?
You can only know that thru experimenting.
No?
New finger print sensor so that the government can have access to it. Thank you apple. Today the prints. Tomorrow your brain. *put tin foil hat on* #
Why not buy an iPad or iPad mini? There is a nice screen size on those for those who want to carry a tablet.
Also I actually want a smaller screen *minds blown*. I liked the smaller iPhone 4 form factor better as I can easily fit it in my pocket.
Me too. I like a smaller phone. I want something more convenient to carry around. If Apple offered a larger size and a smaller size, I'd opt for the smaller size. (BTW - I think Apple SHOULD offer a larger size to stop critics, and give those people who WANT a larger screen the option. There is a lot of lost money there)
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So which is better, finger print scan using the home button or visual recognition using the camera and software?
I'd rather have my finger chopped off after my phone is stolen, than my head.
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Fingerprint sensors were all the rage back around 2000 on PDAs. Since then, various smartphones have tried one.
For example, the first retina-screen (312 PPI) smartphone, the 2007 Toshiba G900, had a fingerprint sensor that could not only
- be used to unlock the Windows Mobile device,
- it could also be used for scrolling and
- could launch a different app depending on which finger you swiped.
As others have mentioned, in 2011 Motorola put an AuthenTec sensor on their Atrix smartphone.
Despite various attempts over the years, fingerprint sensors never really caught on. Partly because they were not 100% accurate. Partly because they could be spoofed and thus were no good for high security situations.
Also, unless this sensor can read through gloves, I'm not sure it'll be used that much in colder regions. At least we have capacitive gloves (and noses) for the touchscreen, but having to take off a glove just to unlock? Nyah. So I hope it can read through one.
Except the NSA who can access anything on any of the major phones more or less at any time (just went through the news about 3 days ago).
No, not living under a rock. I'm just not paranoid. Maybe because I have nothing to hide. Due to my employment, I was finger printed YEARS ago. Didn't bother me then and doesn't bother me now. I'm married, have two kids and work for a living. Arguably, I live a pretty boring life. For the NSA and government, I certainly live a boring life.
Explain it to me. What am I missing?
holding it wrong
When people start complaining it doesn't work properly, I can just hear Steve Jobs saying from his grave "Just avoid holding it in that way."
When people start complaining it doesn't work properly, I can just hear Steve Jobs saying from his grave "Just avoid holding it in that way."
It'll be a lot easier to get to your brain with the tin foil on.
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Apple just needs to give call capabilities to their iOS7 cellular model iPads and then everyone will be happy. People who wanted to make phone calls with their mini get what they want and phone companies can stop charging people for stuff that really just amounts to cellular data.
Cool new iPhone feature: upload your fingerprint to NSA direct from your iPhone. And it's so simple you don't even have to hit send. It just magically goes to its database.
As ex-military, the government already has all my biometric information on file, from fingerprints to DNA samples, so I'm not too worried about it, but I can see the concern.
Perhaps the appearance of facism, totalitarianism, and other forms of autocracy from recent world history?