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Re: iPhone X

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Post by jasonmaydie »

bspn wrote: post #11

Face ID. I'd swear this was satire if I wasn't watching it with my own eyes.

Windows says hello. I imagine in an non-fixed setting like an mobile phone, trying to peek at your phone while not drawing attention to it (meeting or otherwise) will probably be somewhat of a challenge

Re: iPhone X

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Post by danijelb »

FaceID shows the difference between Apple and other smartphone manufacturers. Apple doesn't release features until they are absolutely sure they can engineer them to work perfectly.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by aphextron »

pfisch wrote: post #9

This is what it looks like when people game HN. An article with no content submitted 3 minutes ago has 24 Upvotes. Seems legit... Now it has 32 upvotes in the last 30 seconds... 38 now. 41... 44. These are less than 30 second intervals. 48 55

Its not really about the article. We’re all watching the live event and wanting to talk about it.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by thsowers »

bspn wrote: post #11

Face ID. I'd swear this was satire if I wasn't watching it with my own eyes.

A little surprising given all of their previous talk about "Leading innovation in security" to pick a technology that is inherently insecure

Re: iPhone X

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Post by dan1234 »

chris_7 wrote: post #13

I unlock my phone in my pocket with Touch ID all the time - ready to go and on the home screen by the time I've flipped it around in my hand. Feels like a straight downgrade in usability. also, some engineer at apple had to continuously grow a beard to test this

I think speed of the facial recognition will make or break this. If it takes less than 500ms of me staring at it to unlock it could feel fluid enough. Any longer and it'll be annoying every time.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by raesene9 »

danijelb wrote: post #22

FaceID shows the difference between Apple and other smartphone manufacturers. Apple doesn't release features until they are absolutely sure they can engineer them to work perfectly.

How do you know it'll work perfectly? No-one actually has one of these to test it yet.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by hbosch »

Tomte wrote: post #8

First thought: how well can they discern in the mail app whether I wanted to scroll down or go to the home screen? I probably have to swipe carefully from the very bottom or stay away from the bottom?

The bar is as low as today's iPhone home button. I have a strong feeling you will hardly ever reach it by accident, considering scrolling from a point that low is unnatural and uncomfortable.

Also, there is always a big obvious bar down there.

Re: iPhone X

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Post by marcell »

FaceID seems pretty impressive, if it works as advertised, and it sounds like they've thought of a lot of edge cases.

I can't get over the black bar at the top of iPhone X though. It looks like it has devil horns...

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