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Handling a smart phone is already stressful enough. You can't touch the entire front of phone in fear of accidentally tapping something, even if the screen is o
by jasonkostempski 9y ago
Handling a smart phone is already stressful enough. You can't touch the entire front of phone in fear of accidentally tapping something, even if the screen is off because it might turn on at any moment. With tap to wake you have to worry about just bumping it and with facial expressions you'd literally need to be concerned about just looking at it funny.
- qqg3 9y agoWhat? Ever used an Android device? Tap to wake is super useful and makes perfect sense if no physical home button.
- majewsky 9y agoThe only thing that annoys me is that there is no reverse tap-to-wake. 1. Double-tap on the screen. Lockscreen appears. 2. Check the clock. 3. Fumble annoyedly until finding the power button to turn the screen off.
- jclardy 9y agoActually thinking about it...if Apple did a force touch to wake it could be pretty awesome. So a light press would turn on the screen on low brightness, slowly building up as you increase pressure. Let go and it turns off, commit to the press and you are in.
- la_oveja 9y agoIn my android if you double-tap the notification bar it'll lock the device.
- kyriakos 9y agoDouble tap on notification bar turns the screen off on most Android phones.
- UnoriginalGuy 9y agoAgreed. My LG G2 had that, and it was absolutely fantastic; but no phone since then has had double tap to turn off, only on. I guess they're worried about false positives. But LG solved this by only allowing double tap to turn off from any of the default apps (home screen, notifications, settings, etc). You had to quit out of third party apps to turn it off that way.
- jasonkostempski 9y agoYou know what's even more useful? A physical button, for literally everything except infrequent single tap actions (i.e. not typing) and zooming in. Even for those, I'd prefer a device be required to do it instead of my skin so I can hold the phone like I can a pad of paper.
- WrkInProgress 9y agoTap to wake usually either requires more pressure than an accidental bump or requires a quick double tap. That is how it has been implemented in the Android phones I've used so far.
- rhinoceraptor 9y agoThe Apple watch has tap to wake, I find myself accidentally triggering it a lot. If I cross my arms and I'm wearing short sleeves, I often accidentally start a stopwatch.
- untog 9y agoNot really - there's a reason why the Android phones that have tap to wake require two taps in quick succession, or similar. It's very difficult to accidentally trigger it. The facial recognition stuff seems odd to me, in the sense that I can't really figure out what it would be used for (aside from a silly smile detector in the camera app), but hopefully it'll be locked behind permission prompts (or barely accessible at all) in third party apps.
- Eric_WVGG 9y agoIt's to replace (or supplement) TouchID. Probably also useful for AR stuff down the road. I was skeptical, but I have a friend who has a similar thing running on his Windows box and it works surprisingly well.
- michaelbrooks 9y agoI'm using a Lumia 950 with retina scanner and it works really well. Just as well as the Galaxy S7's fingerprint scanner.
- ioulian 9y agoI once read something about games or ads using facial recognition to get a better feedback about how their game/ad is performing. (I think it was Kinect). Developers can then check what levels are fun to play, and what are a chore. That way they can optimize their future games, or even change the level architecture based on the emotional level of the player. I think you can apply this strategy to ads too, to learn what kind of ad an user likes or dislikes, so they can target the ads a little bit better/easier.
- untog 9y ago> I think you can apply this strategy to ads too, to learn what kind of ad an user likes or dislikes, so they can target the ads a little bit better/easier. Which is exactly why I will refuse to give any facial recognition data to third party apps.
- jclardy 9y agoSomehow, I think Apple probably thought about this before making a change to their flagship phone. They have many options, including making the "tap" a force touch. So requiring a certain amount of pressure before actually turning on. Or requiring a double tap. Or being more of a "tap to unlock" using raise to wake.
- iamatworknow 9y ago>Somehow, I think Apple probably thought about this before making a change to their flagship phone. Like how they thought about how a user's hand could short the antenna circuit with the iPhone 4? Not to entirely discredit the effort their engineers put into these phones, but oversights happen and some aren't discovered until you get enough hands on the device.
- jasonkostempski 9y agoThey stopped thinking when Jobs died. Now they're just taking his last known visions to foolish extremes. Sadly, the rest of the brands just blindly follow them, so it won't matter, they'll still be "ahead" of everyone else.
- nsxwolf 9y agoWhy does it need to be tap to wake? Why can't it use 3D touch and haptics to simulate a physical home button at the bottom of the screen?