Hi Simon,
The new iPhone is projected to have some sort of facial recognition.
The retinal scanning it’s been my experience does not work for a blind
person. I have tried to use this in data centers instead of palm prints or
facial recognition and the systems require the user to focus on a point. If
you can’t see and focus on the point you’re a no go. Your mileage may vary as
I do not have retinas and irises to scan. It’s more than just pointing your
eyeball at a screen though if that helps.
As for the S8 in general, you do not want th is phone it’s largely garbage.
The finger print reader is right next to the camera so you smudge your camera
continuously, the phone has had issues with crashing, it’s under powered using
the Snap Dragon processors, and there’s a really bad implementation of the
virtual home button. There are some interesting cellular features but over all
the phone is a miss in my opinion. If you want to go android and try it out go
Pixel or Pixel xl, specifically wait for fall and this years new releases of
the Google Pixel line.
Hope that helps.
> On Jun 19, 2017, at 5:17 AM, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> I thought I’d ask this question and see what people think,
>
> I was looking at the new Samsung Galaxy S8 today and must admit it’s a bloody
> nicely designed device,
> However it’s an android device so it will be a very big second choice if I’m
> to get a new phone.
>
> A couple of things I did note from it was a couple of security features,
>
> Facial scanning recognition for unlocking your phone and also iris scanning
> recognition for also security like unlocking your phone etc,
>
> Now what I want to know is,
> Will iris scanning work for a blind person?
>
> This feature on the S8 has a depth related scanning so it can’t seemingly be
> fooled with a photo,
> And in my case I still have my own eyes although they don’t work one is white
> with I forget what,
> But I wonder will this work for those of us with eyeballs?
>
> And more to the point will apple even look at these types of security
> features in the next version of the iPhone?
>
> Discuss!
>
> Simon F
>
>
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