Rumor: Galaxy S5 to integrate fingerprint scanner into Home button, not as sophisticated as Touch ID
Apple paid big bucksto acquireAuthenTec, the world’s leading maker of fingerprint sensors. Following the $356 million deal, it took Apple’s teams an additional year or so to apply AuthenTec’s technology toTouch ID. An in-house project, Touch ID has rethought what fingerprint scanning on mobile devices should be like, resulting in a seamless and integrated solution that, in Apple’s parlance, “just works”. That’s not saying Touch ID isn’t without pitfalls. Apple cautionsthat fingerprint scanning doesn’t work well with greasy or wet fingers and there are reports of old people’s prints not being recognized properly as a result of a few decades worth of scarring and general wear and tear....