Either I've got one seriously unusual set of thumbs or TouchID is a 99% marketing.
I'm on my fourth iPhone 5S and I still can't get TouchID to recognize one of my thumbs for more than a day. Works great right after training, requires multiple attempts a few hours later, won't work no matter what the next day, if not earlier.
The only thing TouchID is good for IMHO is making Siri seem to suck less.
i have never had a problem ever, nor my wife. she did at first, but that was user error (she thought she could just touch, but the thumb needs to stay put for a second).
Either I've got one seriously unusual set of thumbs or TouchID is a 99% marketing.
I'm on my fourth iPhone 5S and I still can't get TouchID to recognize one of my thumbs for more than a day. Works great right after training, requires multiple attempts a few hours later, won't work no matter what the next day, if not earlier.
The only thing TouchID is good for IMHO is making Siri seem to suck less.
Seeing as Touch ID has nothing to do with Siri I guess that catches you out on a lie then, doesn't it?
Seeing as Touch ID has nothing to do with Siri I guess that catches you out on a lie then, doesn't it?
I think he was just saying that Siri also doesn't work a lot of time, but TouchID is worse. Not necessarily a lie, though my experience has been much better in both cases.
7.1 cleared all the problems I had with my thumb. For some reason my fingers worked but my thumb was out of the question two days later. Faster and perfect reads now. Have you updated your 4th 5s
Exactly the same for me. Before 7.1 Touch ID was hit or miss with my thumb, usually 95% with finger, but now 100% with any registered finger.
I think he was just saying that Siri also doesn't work a lot of time, but TouchID is worse. Not necessarily a lie, though my experience has been much better in both cases.
Right, that's fair enough. But 4th iPhone 5s, honestly? Do you believe him? I don't. There's no way of knowing anything for sure, but my bet is he has never owned one.
He forgot to say that while Paypal is going to accept fingerprint payment someday, you can't use it on the PlayStore, while you can use TouchID on the AppStore.
He forgot to say that while Paypal is going to accept fingerprint payment someday, you can't use it on the PlayStore, while you can use TouchID on the AppStore.
I wonder why Samsung didn't use Google for payment processing? Google is more than capable of that.
Is this the beginnings of Samsung trying to get away from Google and/or Android?
Even if Samsung sticks with Google... there's gonna be a lot of cooks stirring the pot.
You'll have Samsung supplying the hardware and TouchWiz... Google providing the OS and services... and PayPal handling payments.
Samsung does, however, include a few tricks not yet available on the iPhone, the most prominent being payments integration with PayPal.
If I remember correctly, Touch ID provides authentication for iTunes, App Store and iBooks Store purchases.
I would think an Apple-focused Web site would try to mention this just to show Apple does provide electronic payment capabilities with Touch ID.
I just buy stuff from within the eBay app it integrates with the PayPal app, why bother with Touch ID for that when the passwords are already set up, especially when to even access my phone you need to enter the strong password I set up.
In my opinion Samsung should have just left out the fingerprint scanner for now and had better focused on finding new ways to unlock. Or at least waited until the technology for an integrated fingerprint scanner into the display is ready.
i have never had a problem ever, nor my wife. she did at first, but that was user error (she thought she could just touch, but the thumb needs to stay put for a second).
For a second? Don't get something started. It may SEEM like a second, but it's only 0.4 seconds if you include pressing the home button; if you're phone is already activated then a scan takes just 0.24 seconds. Here's a video showing it:
For a second? Don't get something started. It may SEEM like a second, but it's only 0.4 seconds if you include pressing the home button; if you're phone is already activated then a scan takes just 0.24 seconds. Here's a video showing it:
sorry, i did not time it. my point was that she tapped it as fast as she could and that was clearly not long enough.
I couldn't stop laughing while watching the video, as he kept trying to say something positive about the S5's fingerprint reader while finding it impossible for it to work. Maybe he was being sarcastic about the Samsung's capabilities by showing it missing the read over and over while the iPhone read it perfect every time and from multiple angles.
Also, that huge thing would be impossible to unlock with one hand using that gesture...period. It looks uncomfortable to hold, especially if you have smaller hands. He also mentions you can pay with Paypal which is cool, but considering the amount of failed attempts shown in the video, you'd be much faster just typing in the password and could do it with just one hand instead of two.
As to Touch ID, in my experience (and my wife's), it works just like in the video: perfectly every time. I had a thumb that had occasional misses in the beginning (funny that the other thumb worked perfectly), but after 7.1 that one works fine too. Also, I have one programmed in my wife's phone and it's always worked perfectly. And when I use touch ID to pay for iTunes purchases, it also works. Sorry Samsung. Nice try, but no.
I couldn't stop laughing while watching the video, as he kept trying to say something positive about the S5's fingerprint reader while finding it impossible for it to work. Maybe he was being sarcastic about the Samsung's capabilities by showing it missing the read over and over while the iPhone read it perfect every time and from multiple angles.
Also, that huge thing would be impossible to unlock with one hand using that gesture...period. It looks uncomfortable to hold, especially if you have smaller hands. He also mentions you can pay with Paypal which is cool, but considering the amount of failed attempts shown in the video, you'd be much faster just typing in the password and could do it with just one hand instead of two.
As to Touch ID, in my experience (and my wife's), it works just like in the video: perfectly every time. I had a thumb that had occasional misses in the beginning (funny that the other thumb worked perfectly), but after 7.1 that one works fine too. Also, I have one programmed in my wife's phone and it's always worked perfectly. And when I use touch ID to pay for iTunes purchases, it also works. Sorry Samsung. Nice try, but no.
Just pondering...
To be fair, the failed attempts in the video were deliberate in order to demonstrate that it only reads when you swipe directly down (but if you do it works quite well). But I have to say that Samsung should have just left off the fingerprint scanner for now (at least until the fingerprint scanner built into the display technology is ready) and should have just focused on finding alternative ways of unlocking phones. The implementation as it is now is not as it should be.
The samsung are cheater again by copy the lock screen with camera at the right corner from iPhone lock screen
It has been possible to slide from the right to activate the camera on Android phones since at least 2.0 (release 2009). With the iPhone only introducing this feature in iOS 5.0 (release end 2011). So not really seeing your point here . Here you have for example have an xperia phone with Android 4.0 with the camera button in the right corner (2011).
In Android 4.0 the camera as standard was included into the circular lock screen design (but some skins still used the old method) and in 4.1 it became part of the lock screen widgets opening the camera with a swipe (it is also still possible to use the circular design to open the camera if you wish to add it).
Don't worry. Once other ARM licensees are on the 64-bit train, it'll be praised as 'innovation' by the haters.
To be correct they actually already were on the 64bit train. Pretty much every major chip designer and manufacturer (Applied Micro, Nvidia which at that time already announced that they were working on a 64bit chip for smartphones with Project Denver, Marvell, Samsung, Qualcomm...) licensed ARMv8 at the moment the license became available. Apple just finished earlier for which they deserve a lot of credit.
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Either I've got one seriously unusual set of thumbs or TouchID is a 99% marketing.
I'm on my fourth iPhone 5S and I still can't get TouchID to recognize one of my thumbs for more than a day. Works great right after training, requires multiple attempts a few hours later, won't work no matter what the next day, if not earlier.
The only thing TouchID is good for IMHO is making Siri seem to suck less.
i have never had a problem ever, nor my wife. she did at first, but that was user error (she thought she could just touch, but the thumb needs to stay put for a second).
Seeing as Touch ID has nothing to do with Siri I guess that catches you out on a lie then, doesn't it?
Message this video conveys regarding fingerprint technology:
iPhone 5S - hands down winner.
Samesung Galaxy 5s - gimmick.
7.1 cleared all the problems I had with my thumb. For some reason my fingers worked but my thumb was out of the question two days later. Faster and perfect reads now. Have you updated your 4th 5s
Exactly the same for me. Before 7.1 Touch ID was hit or miss with my thumb, usually 95% with finger, but now 100% with any registered finger.
I think he was just saying that Siri also doesn't work a lot of time, but TouchID is worse. Not necessarily a lie, though my experience has been much better in both cases.
Right, that's fair enough. But 4th iPhone 5s, honestly? Do you believe him? I don't. There's no way of knowing anything for sure, but my bet is he has never owned one.
Nice to hear that the update apparently truly fixed some issues with it.
I wonder why Samsung didn't use Google for payment processing? Google is more than capable of that.
Is this the beginnings of Samsung trying to get away from Google and/or Android?
Even if Samsung sticks with Google... there's gonna be a lot of cooks stirring the pot.
You'll have Samsung supplying the hardware and TouchWiz... Google providing the OS and services... and PayPal handling payments.
That seems needlessly complicated.
I just buy stuff from within the eBay app it integrates with the PayPal app, why bother with Touch ID for that when the passwords are already set up, especially when to even access my phone you need to enter the strong password I set up.
On launch it will be a three to five week wait, same for the blue model.
In my opinion Samsung should have just left out the fingerprint scanner for now and had better focused on finding new ways to unlock. Or at least waited until the technology for an integrated fingerprint scanner into the display is ready.
i have never had a problem ever, nor my wife. she did at first, but that was user error (she thought she could just touch, but the thumb needs to stay put for a second).
For a second? Don't get something started. It may SEEM like a second, but it's only 0.4 seconds if you include pressing the home button; if you're phone is already activated then a scan takes just 0.24 seconds. Here's a video showing it:
For a second? Don't get something started. It may SEEM like a second, but it's only 0.4 seconds if you include pressing the home button; if you're phone is already activated then a scan takes just 0.24 seconds. Here's a video showing it:
sorry, i did not time it. my point was that she tapped it as fast as she could and that was clearly not long enough.
I couldn't stop laughing while watching the video, as he kept trying to say something positive about the S5's fingerprint reader while finding it impossible for it to work. Maybe he was being sarcastic about the Samsung's capabilities by showing it missing the read over and over while the iPhone read it perfect every time and from multiple angles.
Also, that huge thing would be impossible to unlock with one hand using that gesture...period. It looks uncomfortable to hold, especially if you have smaller hands. He also mentions you can pay with Paypal which is cool, but considering the amount of failed attempts shown in the video, you'd be much faster just typing in the password and could do it with just one hand instead of two.
As to Touch ID, in my experience (and my wife's), it works just like in the video: perfectly every time. I had a thumb that had occasional misses in the beginning (funny that the other thumb worked perfectly), but after 7.1 that one works fine too. Also, I have one programmed in my wife's phone and it's always worked perfectly. And when I use touch ID to pay for iTunes purchases, it also works. Sorry Samsung. Nice try, but no.
Just pondering...
I couldn't stop laughing while watching the video, as he kept trying to say something positive about the S5's fingerprint reader while finding it impossible for it to work. Maybe he was being sarcastic about the Samsung's capabilities by showing it missing the read over and over while the iPhone read it perfect every time and from multiple angles.
Also, that huge thing would be impossible to unlock with one hand using that gesture...period. It looks uncomfortable to hold, especially if you have smaller hands. He also mentions you can pay with Paypal which is cool, but considering the amount of failed attempts shown in the video, you'd be much faster just typing in the password and could do it with just one hand instead of two.
As to Touch ID, in my experience (and my wife's), it works just like in the video: perfectly every time. I had a thumb that had occasional misses in the beginning (funny that the other thumb worked perfectly), but after 7.1 that one works fine too. Also, I have one programmed in my wife's phone and it's always worked perfectly. And when I use touch ID to pay for iTunes purchases, it also works. Sorry Samsung. Nice try, but no.
Just pondering...
To be fair, the failed attempts in the video were deliberate in order to demonstrate that it only reads when you swipe directly down (but if you do it works quite well). But I have to say that Samsung should have just left off the fingerprint scanner for now (at least until the fingerprint scanner built into the display technology is ready) and should have just focused on finding alternative ways of unlocking phones. The implementation as it is now is not as it should be.
The samsung are cheater again by copy the lock screen with camera at the right corner from iPhone lock screen
It has been possible to slide from the right to activate the camera on Android phones since at least 2.0 (release 2009). With the iPhone only introducing this feature in iOS 5.0 (release end 2011). So not really seeing your point here
. Here you have for example have an xperia phone with Android 4.0 with the camera button in the right corner (2011).
http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss269/netbookc/XB1/XperiaSICSFirmware_04.png
or HTC on Android 2.3: http://www.theunwired.net/media/column/htc_sensation/htc_sensation_lockscreen.jpg
In Android 4.0 the camera as standard was included into the circular lock screen design (but some skins still used the old method) and in 4.1 it became part of the lock screen widgets opening the camera with a swipe (it is also still possible to use the circular design to open the camera if you wish to add it).
Don't worry. Once other ARM licensees are on the 64-bit train, it'll be praised as 'innovation' by the haters.
To be correct they actually already were on the 64bit train. Pretty much every major chip designer and manufacturer (Applied Micro, Nvidia which at that time already announced that they were working on a 64bit chip for smartphones with Project Denver, Marvell, Samsung, Qualcomm...) licensed ARMv8 at the moment the license became available. Apple just finished earlier for which they deserve a lot of credit.