A2H GO
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^ This is what makes skeptical about the whole thing, is the tech really at the stage where it's perfect? What about it degrading over time, have they got round that too?
Or is it because Steve isn’t there anymore to tell them it’s crap they’re just going to put it out anyway.
[Edited on 10-09-2013 by A2H GO]
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Munchie
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^^ I really cannot see that laaaa
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Reading into the company they bought it looks like the tech has been around for over a year now so expect they have been able to do some pretty extensive testing of it.
We can only wait and see. It will either be a great tool (IMO) or a complete flop and could really damage the brand.
If they were able to get mass adoption of this along with Find iPhone they could really impact the black market of stolen phones
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Munchie
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thats me out of business
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Balling
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Originally posted by Jakey
Where will the event be shown? Online somewhere?
Engadget's live blog is usually pretty good:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/10/apple-iphone-liveblog-2013/
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The last event was streamed but there was no announcement the link just appeared on the apple site a few hours before the event.
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A2H GO
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It will either be a great tool (IMO) or a complete flop and could really damage the brand.
Even if it's great the other 70% of the mobile market will say it's shit anyway. 
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Just waitng now for Apple to say they were the first company to invent fingerprint sensors and that noone else can use it.
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just waiting for you to buy an iPhone and start going to the gym
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Steve
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just waiting for you to get out of attention mode.
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Balling
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Just waitng now for Apple to say they were the first company to invent fingerprint sensors and that noone else can use it.
Not saying they invented it, but have there been any other mobile devices with this type of fingerprint scanner?
And I'm not talking about Lenovo's "slide your finger over this area 10 times, and if you're lucky it'll recognise your print", I'm talking about "push this button and it will instantly verify your fingerprint and unlock the device".
Provided this works somewhat trouble free, isn't this a first off?
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I'm guessing that this will also (finally) put an end to that dreadful mechanical home button.
Can anyone verify?
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Yup - there have been others - a very similar sensor was in the Fujitsu Regza - strangely the sensor was in the middle of the back of the phone which is not a very natural place for it.
Including hardware is the first challenge but making it usable it the 2nd and arguably most important. It could be the best bit of tech in the world but if you make it a pain to use no-one will.
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thats me out of business
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Munchie
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You are right that they have bought out a security company that specalises in this kind of thing but the home button has been improved over generations of the iphone which is evident in the iphone 4 to iphone 4s upgrade where the buttons are much better and have had well less failures.
I have not heard of a mainstream phone with fingerprint scanner so could be onto something but hey.....may work...may not! Time will tell
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Originally posted by Jakey
Where will the event be shown? Online somewhere?
Looks like it'll be shown here:
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/
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Like Rob says it has to work 100% everytime otherwise it will just get turned off, and it actually has to be more secure or at least equivalent to a 4 digit pin.
[Edited on 10-09-2013 by Steve]
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A2H GO
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quote:
Originally posted by Munchie
thats me out of business
How did I miss that.
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When will they realise the button at the top fucking breaks and something needs to be done about it 
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Originally posted by Balling
I'm guessing that this will also (finally) put an end to that dreadful mechanical home button.
Can anyone verify?
What's to say it won't be mechanical aswell? What it people want to turn it off?
Perhaps it will double as a capacitive button too which would be cool although I much prefer the feel and feedback you get from a proper button.
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A2H GO
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When will they realise the button at the top fucking breaks and something needs to be done about it
Out of 5 iPhones I've never had the sleep button break, what are you doing to them?
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2nd 5, both broken top button.
I press it, now have to use that shit touch assist button. Want to change iphone now, as its fully taken the piss. Out of the last 4, there's been something wrong with all 4. So poor.
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What's to say it won't be mechanical aswell?
Nothing, the steel ring around the button just made me assume it will respond to touch rather than physical pressure.
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Munchie
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Swapping my S4 for a iphone 5 this month, fancy a change and IOS7 looks like something that will suit me
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