Apple patent filing hints at a tight fingerprint scanner package suitable for mobile

[Poke]

We need your fingerprint.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Appl...t-scanner-package-suitable-for-mobile_id44305

 

[navychop]

Better work a LOT better than the one we had on a laptop.


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[dangue]

The one I have on my laptop works great. However, I'd probably never want to use this as a lock/unlock mechanism unless there was a fallback or alternate fail safe method of unlocking the phone. Can you imagine this part breaking and the entire phone becoming unlockable? That would be a mess! A fingerprint and/or passcode setup would work quite nicely though.