“Apple is expected to launch a new iPhone this year with a fingerprint sensor hidden beneath the home button — an intuitive design that could be difficult for competing Android and Windows Phone devices to copy,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities expects Apple’s acquisition of AuthenTec to pay off this year with the so-called ‘iPhone 5S,’ the company’s anticipated next-generation handset,” Hughes reports. “He believes that with the addition of a fingerprint sensor below the iPhone’s home button, Apple will be able to replace the use of usernames and passwords, allowing users to authenticate in a more efficient manner. He also expects that the fingerprint scanner will integrate with applications such as Passbook to enhance their functionality.”
Hughes reports, “Kuo has a particularly strong track record in predicting Apple’s future product pipeline.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
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Hopefully multiple fingerprints can be input, such as all 10 of my fingers and say my wife or child’s index fingers.
One should never doubt Samdung’s ability to slavishly copy Apple’s innovations…
Talk about the S3 and the introduction of S-voice. The only original thing so far I can accredit them is the flexible screen.
Sound too good to true, hope it happens
Except that I like face recognition better- imagine just picking up the phone and it activates the forward facing camera (if it was asleep, the accelerometer wakes it up), sees it’s you and unlocks the phone. Assuming they allow for multiple faces (as well as the slide to unlock with passcode if you want to lend your phone out), you won’t have to push any button at all…
Or better yet: multiple personalities
I never forget a face, but in you’re case I’ll make an exception.
Er, your.
Android tried that. It didn’t work.
It was easy to bypass by holding up a photo of the user.
A fingerprint is still the gold standard for authentication. And it’s unobtrusive.
That, combined with passbook, combined with hundreds of millions of iTunes accounts, is a recipe for a mobile payment system that will get adopted and used.
What about the fingerprints that you leave all over a *touch* device?? I am not so sure that fingerprint recognition is the best approach for a touch device.
How would that work at night? I personally don’t want my phone to light up every time I pick it up.
And if it’s dark?
The problem with facial recognition is that someone could hold a photo of you to the phone and authenticate w/o your permission… Say, a child who wants into dad’s phone?
But what about us MIB personnel? We had ours removed. 🙁
I’d like to know what Apple are doing with graphene…
How about a butt sensor? I sit on my phone all the time and, and, and, I want it activated while I sit on it.
That might be confused with face sensing for you.
heh.
😀 haha.. good one dude. gotta give you credit.
Now you want it to weigh you? 😉
Yeah right. Samesung will copy your goddamn grandmother if they have to.
Hum…
Don’t take me wrong… But other brand are also working on that.
It’s not hidden behind a button but that’s only a detail:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/fujitsu-tegra-3-phone-hands-on-fingerprint-reader-physical-buttons
This is not the only example
I had a fingerprint sensor for my iMac. The problem is I have very faint fingerprints and it was a real problem starting up mu Mac. I finally got rid of the whole thing.
I think it’s likely this will happen given the a acquisition of Authentec, but it seems unlikely that its debut would be on the iPhone 5S, more likely the iPhone 6.
This whole thread is sounding like “The Silence of the Lambs”
Fava beans!
The fingerprint home button sensor is no big deal, it will be quickly copied one way or another just like everything else. But the big thing does seem to be the plastic exterior. I think that is going to be huge. Like original imac huge.
Finger printing is so 20th century. Apple needs to integrate retina scan with Retina screens.
What I like about this is its potential to reduce theft. What’s the point in stealing a phone that can’t be used by another person?
Expect a lot of fingers being cut off by thieves.
couldn’t this be more towards making the home button a touch sensor vs a mechanical button as opposed to a security feature?
There goes water / dust proof cases…
“is expected”, “could be”, “so-called”, “anticipated”, “believes”.
Vaporwriting.
I think lg expo copied it back in 2009