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cool feature: "Smart stay. The screen refuses to timeout when you're looking at it, based on face recognition via the front-facing camera. There's nothing worse
by spot 14y ago
cool feature: "Smart stay. The screen refuses to timeout when you're looking at it, based on face recognition via the front-facing camera. There's nothing worse than a screen that switches off just as you're starting to make sense of the content it's showing you, and this feature nips that problem in the bud."
- windsurfer 14y agoDoes anyone else find this extremely fucking creepy?
- morsch 14y agoCreepy? No, why? I wonder about the battery draw of constantly running the front camera and doing face recognition, but if that's not an issue I don't see any downside. I wish my own phone did it. Even if it uses some power, it might be a net improvement for some people who would set their screen timeout to very long durations otherwise. I'm sure that is even more of an issue for a device with such a humongous screen -- it'll take you twice as long to read an entire screen of information.
- estel 14y agoApparently it doesn't run the camera constantly: it wakes up to take a single shot immediately before the screen turns off.
- randallsquared 14y agoNot at all; it sounds awesome. On my SII, I either have to constantly adjust the timeout manually or tap the screen every 50 seconds or so while browsing or playing a game that requires thinking. Either is really annoying.
- rsheridan6 14y agoI'm not sure about this, but I think it recognizes a face, not your face, so I don't see anything creepy about it.