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Sorta NSFW: Yes, the Fingerprint Reader on Your Phone Can Recognize Things Other Than Fingers, Like Your Penis

Tim May 9, 2016 64

Over the weekend, a bored and curious reddit user decided to test various body parts on the fingerprint reader on the Galaxy S7, seeing if it would recognize something other than just a fingertip. Not too surprisingly, a few interesting parts of the human...

LG Just Created a Button-Less Fingerprint Sensor That Hides Under a Display

Kellen May 2, 2016 43

To talk about LG's latest innovation, we should turn to Apple's brodog-in-Chief, Phil Schiller, to a time when he dropped the quote, "Can't innovate anymore, my ass." Schiller was referencing the company's trashcan-shaped Mac Pro computer, but we are using it...

Chase Mobile App Updated With Fingerprint Support

Tim April 25, 2016 27

The Chase Mobile banking application received an update this week, bringing support for many to use their smartphone's built-in fingerprint reader to log into the app, instead of using a name and password. While this news will be glorious for quite a few,...

Poll: Where Should Fingerprint Readers be Placed? Front, Back, or Side?

Tim April 7, 2016 246

With Android OEMs placing fingerprint readers all over the place on various phones, such as on the back with the Nexus 6P, on the front with the Galaxy S7, and even on the side like we see with the Robin and devices from Sony, it's time we settled this debate...

Poll: Do You Use a Fingerprint to Unlock Your Phone?

Kellen January 21, 2016 77

Yesterday, we asked if you are all using a secure lock screen after reading a report that said 1 in 3 Android users go without one. Our results turned up with slightly better numbers, showing that 77% of you utilize some form of a secure lock screen. That...

OK, Then: No Fingerprint Sensors for Xperia Z5 and Z5 Compact in the US

Kellen January 15, 2016 47

Yesterday, Sony announced that its current flagships, the Xperia Z5 and Xperia Z5 Compact, would be coming to the US on February 7. We assumed that these unlocked GSM versions of the phones they released elsewhere months ago were exactly the same as when...

Reminder: You can Pay for Google Play Items Using Your Fingerprint on the Nexus 6P and 5X

Kellen October 19, 2015 19

If you ordered a Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P, don't forget that thanks to Android 6.0 Marshmallow and the fingerprint scanners on each, you can use your fingerprint to pay for goods on Google Play. You will have to enable the option and setup some fingerprints, but...

The Nexus 5X and 6P Fingerprint Scanners are the Best.

Kellen October 19, 2015 135

Last week, I wrote an opinion piece that attempted to convince the world that rear-mounted fingerprint scanners were the ideal implementation, not the home button locations that Samsung and Apple have sold you all on over the past couple of years. I took some...