My Rant on the iPhone 5s

[JHBThree]

Pretty sure it can be fooled like the rest. Ooh a link! Here you go: http://www.inquisitr.com/943528/iphone-fingerprint-scanner-hacking-nfc-apple-iphone-5s-release-date/
May I also point this out from the article? "Wired magazine points out that iPhone fingerprint scanner hacking could be pulled off with the same methods used to fool all other biometrics systems"

I will repeat: you have been misinformed. The only way to gain access to a scanner that uses sub dermal imaging is to have the finger itself. Your linked statement, and the end of the quoted paragraph makes clear that the methods of fooling it can be stopped. And what do you know? ALL of the methods of stopping it that they identify are integrated into this sensor.

 

[mayconvert]

Hardly no one, other than a few geeks, even knows what a tech tile is or how to use one. I would bet that 1 in 10 droid users actually Use Tech Tiles daily.

 

[DroidArmy]

I will repeat: you have been misinformed. The only way to gain access to a scanner that uses sub dermal imaging is to have the finger itself. Your linked statement, and the end of the quoted paragraph makes clear that the methods of fooling it can be stopped. And what do you know? ALL of the methods of stopping it that they identify are integrated into this sensor.

Fair enough. It's still possible to fool, like all sensors, but it would take more work. Nothing is perfect.

 

[JHBThree]

Fair enough. It's still possible to fool, like all sensors, but it would take more work. Nothing is perfect.

To fool it you would have to cut off the persons finger, and that still might not work since it will read the pulse too.

 

[DroidArmy]

Hardly no one, other than a few geeks, even knows what a tech tile is or how to use one. I would bet that 1 in 10 droid users actually Use Tech Tiles daily.

That was an example. The more common use is photo and file sharing. I do it a lot, and I see it happen a lot in my work place. All around actually. It's technology that could be improved, but certainly not worthless

 

[DroidArmy]

To fool it you would have to cut off the persons finger, and that still might not work since it will read the pulse too.

No no, there's ways. Granted nobody would go that far, but there's ways. And either way, it was just released today. Give me a break, I'm not going to read up on a fingerprint scanner. I would trust that the information is right, but that's obviously not the case. Apparently it's harder to fool than I previously thought.

 

[return_0]

Same thing to YOU. Because you hate Apple products not because they are the same thing every year.

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So just because someone doesn't like the new iPhone, they're immediately an Apple hater?

You must be pretty stupid if you mistook an iPhone for a credit card...

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That's rather offensive...

 

[return_0]

NFC is useless It has been on 2 android devices I have owned and both were disabled by AT&T.

Umm... pretty sure AT&T didn't disable NFC on any phone; they just disabled Google Wallet.

and where I live. nearly ZERO places even accept it. NFC is over hyped junk in its current state.

A "place" can't really not accept NFC. You can use NFC anywhere as long as there's another device that supports it (pretty much any Android device released in the past two years).

I'm pretty sure you're confusing NFC with Google Wallet which uses NFC but isn't the technology itself. For example, I've used NFC several times to transfer files between devices.

 

[return_0]

Its fairly common knowledge. I believe it was in his biography. There are still products that he approved that haven't been seen yet. The 5S, and perhaps the next iPhone, were personally approved by him.

I wouldn't exactly consider that "common knowledge", considering Marques Brownlee (who is the tech geek of tech geeks) didn't know that.

 

[JHBThree]

I wouldn't exactly consider that "common knowledge", considering Marques Brownlee (who is the tech geek of tech geeks) didn't know that.

If he didn't know it, he wasn't paying attention. It was all over the place when the 4s was unveiled.

 

[Uselessbass]

I was a apple guy back in the day my personal opinion is the iphone 4 was the last good phone they released I remember when the iPhone 4s was announced I was so pissed it looked the same as my 4 I switched to android and I have not looked back after today's announcement it just reaffirms iPhone is dead to me

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[anon5664829]

I wouldn't exactly consider that "common knowledge", considering Marques Brownlee (who is the tech geek of tech geeks) didn't know that.

He is a tech geek for Android products. He has no mobile products and at many times I have found him to have a lack of knowledge about Apple or having bias.

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[anon5664829]

So just because someone doesn't like the new iPhone, they're immediately an Apple hater?


That's rather offensive...

No. Its the constant bashing saying Apple releases the same stuff every year that does qualify him as an iPhone hater.

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[anon5664829]

Umm... pretty sure AT&T didn't disable NFC on any phone; they just disabled Google Wallet.


A "place" can't really not accept NFC. You can use NFC anywhere as long as there's another device that supports it (pretty much any Android device released in the past two years).

I'm pretty sure you're confusing NFC with Google Wallet which uses NFC but isn't the technology itself. For example, I've used NFC several times to transfer files between devices.

NFC is pretty useless.

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[DroidArmy]

No. Its the constant bashing saying Apple releases the same stuff every year that does qualify him as an iPhone hater.

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Well they do sooo.......

 

[return_0]

NFC is pretty useless.

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That's your opinion.

It's completely false for me, since I actually use NFC.

 

[JHBThree]

That's your opinion.

It's completely false for me, since I actually use NFC.

Someone should do a survey on it. I would wager the largest response would be 'what's NFC', with all of the other responses in a tiny minority.

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[neonworm]

Someone should do a survey on it. I would wager the largest response would be 'what's NFC', with all of the other responses in a tiny minority.

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That doesn't mean it is not useful.

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[return_0]

Someone should do a survey on it. I would wager the largest response would be 'what's NFC', with all of the other responses in a tiny minority.

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Except a survey on whether or not people use NFC on their phone should probably be restricted to people who have phones with NFC.
Remember, most Android phones are Samsung, most Samsung users switched because of marketing, and a large amount of Samsung's marketing was showcasing NFC.

But besides, that wouldn't prove anything. The usefulness of a feature doesn't depend on how many people use it. That's like saying the quality of a phone is determined by the number of units sold.

 

[pappy53]

NFC will never amount to much, unless Apple adopts it. That's just the way it is.