“Samsung’s next flagship smartphone will ship with a Touch ID-like fingerprint sensor in place of the swipe-style sensor that the company employed on the underwhelming Galaxy S5,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.
In practice, the new fingerprint system is said to work much like Apple’s Touch ID, reading the user’s fingerprint without requiring them to swipe,” Oliver reports. “Samsung will enlarge the home button on its so-called “Galaxy S6” in order to accommodate the larger touch-style sensor, notes usually reliable blog SamMobile.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Gee, what a surprise.
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In this game, Xiaomi got hurt and also tries to copy
Samsung and Xiamen leave me feeling nauseas. This is stealing… Not competition. I know Xerox Parc and all. But this is getting ridiculous.
“Xiaomi”
Haha the PARC myth? Really? Xerox got PAID upfront with Apple stock (which they stupidly sold) for the ideas developed there.
I stand corrected. Just trying to ward off Xerox Parc comments. Got them from the other side. Sheesh.
You brought up Xerox PARC, and make a false statement at that. It’s fair to expect responses. 🙂
By mentioning them here, you obviously don’t know anything about Xerox or PARC.
The fact that you mention Xerox Parc tells me you know your history and believe the myth.
crap, I mean’t “don’t know your history”
I wish I could learn to slow down my typing.
Don’t take it personally, friend. This is the lovely world of online forums. Everyone is an expert.
What’s ridiculous is believing the PARC myth.
I mean, just use your head for once. Don’t you think Xerox would have sued (and won) if the myth you believe was true?
Apple licensed from Xerox Parcs though (who failed to understand what they had). I don’t see Samsung licensing so much as just taking and hoping the lax courts and idiot judges will let them skate criminally through.
Any bets if there are Android app writers just waiting to abscond with fingerprint ID data?
Hey, with Android being the target of 95% of mobile exploits, you know it is going to happen.
Of course, when Android lets telcos insert their own apps that can’t be removed, you know the guts of how to do this are well known.
That lets bad guys simply use this technique to load in invisible apps that log whatever they want.
Poor Android suckers. Wonder what % of Google employees and managers use iPhone off hours?
doesn’t work the labrador’s paw unlocked it
Samsung’s contrivance will be a third-rate kludge at best.
That is the sensor would be done by Samsung itself. However, this sensor is Swedish, and it works well in Huawei Ascend 7.
But in both Huawei and Samsung cases there is no privacy protection of the fingerprints. There is no secure enclave there to store the hashes, so you only depend on whether your version of Android is lousy enough to get your data stolen or not.
So I am not sure how well protected your financial transactions and other electronic signature actions can be in those cases.
If Jobs was here he might say something like….”and boy have we patented it”.
With judges like Koh it isn’t going to help.
Yes. Thank you Judge Judy Koh. You could have stopped all this. And set some really important legal precedent that protected valuable intellectual property and supported American companies. Instead, you punted.
Wishing you all the karma you so richly deserve!
Instead of copying Apple, Samsung should be spending their resources on perfecting their graphene mass production methods. Harvesting hydrogen from the air using graphene will be efficient enough in probably 2-3 years. This means machines/devices won’t need to be charged, connected to the grid, etc. They will be powered with hydrogen-based fuel cells.
Instead of wasting all that money on reinventing the wheel (aka reinventing Touché ID) and on court cases for patent infringement why doesn’t Samsung just licence it from Apple?
Touché ID – interesting. 😛
Samsung is losing ground.. Everything they put out … Flops.. They are closing their stores one by one.. Most of them not reported in the media.. They stop making / selling laptops in Europe. And Their own business finance treasury Dept . Forecast a negative 2015… So if you bought a note 4 now… You would be left on your own in the next few months…. Good luck.