iPhone of the future to get fingerprint controls
While the iPhone 3GS (not without its minor overheating problems), and the bustling 3.0 software update helped to clear the shelves of the latest iPhone incarnate, how you may be asking, will Apple maintain their smartphone dominance? Perhaps embracing fingerprint recognition and control technology may just help shift another sizeable batch of Apple’s honourable smartphone great.
This future iPhone inclination has arisen from Apple filing a U.S patent application which amongst some intriguing new features includes, storing user input signatures and fingerprint signatures, that in turn, can be associated with user-selectable commands.
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Determining which finger is touching the screen, the device will react accordingly. So a touch with your middle finger will take you to the home screen or your little finger could be dedicated to the play button on the device.The possiblities of pairing fingerprint recognition with other interface technologies such as the swipe, and the double-tap seem to point to a real feature winner.
Arguably already boasting one of the most intuitive and user-friendly control systems you can get your hands on, incorporating fingerprint technology usually banded around in the tech world for added security, could also be a new means of navigating your way around the iPhone without even looking at the screen. And let’s be honest this is not a bad piece of tech to start playing around with it.
See the patent application here: US Patent and Trademark Office
Link: TechRadar
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