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Huffington Post’s Timothy Stenovec recently wrote an article about how the iPhone 5S have failed on creating this Biometric Fingerprint Scanner within the new iPhone. The Article pointed out that a user, by the name of Fred Kahl who is a 48 year old creative director, reported multiple complaints based on the new fingerprint scanner in the iPhone 5S. Fred is one of the many people who never enjoyed entering a password on his phone, but thought the fingerprint scanner would save him time entering a password and just simply log in the phone by scanning his fingerprint. But turns out that the fingerprint scanning feature worked for him only 75% of the time he scanned his fingerprint. This situation turned out to be somewhat of a major issue for him, therefore now he is going back to the old iPhone he carried before, which has no feature of scanning his fingerprint. The Article also mentioned how a large number of consumers have been complaining about the same issue and how they are also looking to go back to either their old iPhones or switch to another smartphone.

I had the iPhone 5S for two months so far and I definitely did not have any problems scanning my fingerprint. I honestly believe the users who are complaining about the iPhone 5S are just trying to exaggerate about a very minor issue. There are times where I scan my fingerprint on the phone and it does not go through, it will notify me to ‘try again’. The times this happens for me is usually the times I am not looking at the phone as I enter my fingerprint or I am in a rush entering my fingerprint on the scanner. But one thing I noticed as I got the ‘try again’ message once more, was that the actual placement of my finger on the scanner was not the way it was when I first entered my fingerprint to the iPhone 5S when I bought it. When you are entering your fingerprint for the first time within the iPhone, it is not like the iPhone recognized your entire thumb or like every angle of your thumb. So next time if you are scanning your fingerprint to access the phone, you should be placing your finger on the scanner just as the way you entered it to the phone when you first purchased it. Another option would be to use up all 5 fingerprints, you are able to enter within the iPhone, on every angle of your thumb or any other finger. Which will definitely guarantee you access to your iPhone every time you scan your fingerprint.

I also read up that Apple is trying to reply to this issue by releasing a new update to the iOS, which will make the fingerprint scanner function of the iPhone 5S less sensitive, therefore will increase the chances for you to get access to your iPhone right when you scan your finger. Which I believe is a better idea, but the only downfall would be less security, where other people can gain access to your iPhone by scanning their fingerprint (might be similar to owners fingerprint). So we might just have to wait and see what the outcome of this situation might be. But overall I believe people should be grateful to have such a cool feature on their smartphones, which does work ten times better than the fingerprint scanner on the Motorola smart phone they released couple months back.

Huffington Post’s Article about iPhone 5S Fingerprint Scanning Link: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/18/apple-fingerprint-scanner_n_4284444.html

On October 22nd, Apple announced that their newly anticipated iPad will be released on November 1st of this year. This new iPad will consist of many new features, but the most important feature would be the light weight of the product. Other features of the iPad Air include the new 64 bit A7 processor alongside the M7 co-processor, retina display and LTE support. At this point, many of you might say “Wait, didn’t the previous iPad have majority of those features?!”, and I most certainly agree. The new iPad did not have a major upgrade for a device that had so much potential to show off as a new generation tablet with state of the art features.

I honestly believe Apple had a flop with this product, where their might be many customers who will purchase this product, due to their attachment to Apple’s line of product, but their definitely will be those who will not purchase this item due to the iPad Air’s lack of new features. And you can count on the fact that I might be one of the few that do not go head on to purchase this new iPad Air. I am honestly a huge fan of Apple’s line of products, but I was very disappointed with this one, as Apple could have added more exclusiveness to this device. There are many new features Apple could have added, such as the newly hyped fingerprint scanner and the dual-flash camera features from the iPhone 5s. By creating whole new iPad, which could have included features from iPhone 5s and this whole new light weight on the iPad, I believe Apple would have made the right decision and their sales would have had more chance of increasing for their iPad Air product.

On the other hand, I believe Apple is running out of ideas, where I personally feel like this new light weight iPad is unnecessary. For example, I never heard of anyone complaining about the previous full iPad about its weight or saying anything like, “Oh, I can’t bring my iPad to work today due to its weight”. Like c’mon, is this whole new light weight tablet really really necessary? Apple is most certainly wasting their time and energy on useless products such as this.

I recently sat down with one of my co-workers to discuss her interest in Apple’s line of products for the iPad. From what I know she is a huge fan of iPads, where she had almost all of the previous generations iPads that have been released. I asked her a good dozen questions, but one of the main question I asked her was, “What would you have liked to see on the new iPad release they just announced?”. She replied with a simple answer, “The fingerprint scanner from the iPhone 5S”. Right then I noticed that I am not the only one who was disappointed with the results of the new iPad Air. Through out the interview, she also mentioned that she never had any problem with the weight of the iPad and also said how she will pass on the new iPad Air this year, where she is happy and satisfied with the iPad 3 she currently owns.

I really hope Apple plans stepping their game up as times continues, where they add the features on their iPad line very slowly, just like putting retina display on its iPads much later than the iPhone 4 released with its retina display. And most likely they will end up putting the fingerprint scanner on the iPad one year from now, which is honestly too late.

Click on the following link for more information:

http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/handheld/apples-new-ipads-pros-and-cons/240163001