iPhone 5S features 64-bit processor, fingerprint scanner

Current touchscreens can already read your fingerprints. You're complaining about a feature that uses this information when the bigger concern are the apps running in the background that you aren't aware of.

boooooring!

I don't care.

This is why new technology will never take off and we will never move forward as a race, because people are so paranoid and crazy about anything that involves any sort of identity. You think anybody needs to look at your fingerprint on a phone to get your info if they want it? There are tons of other easy ways to do so. Gosh people disappoint me so much.

Great, now the NSA has our fingerprints and when we get hacked we lose our identity.  Way to go Apple!

Hyperbole overload

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/new-iphone-can-plant-your-fingerprints-at-murder-scene-2013091179330

I know they said in the video that the information about the fingerprint will be stored somewhere safe and not send to Apple or anywhere else, but still... as convenient as it may be, I have a bad feeling about this. Even if Apple are honest about this, this tech may be implemented by others in the future and they may not be that "secure".

Cut your finger and you're out of luck

Apple iPhone Was the best first smartphone but for Now I will say Goodbye to iPhone

Going to see The New latest High-End Tech most of People Use Smartphone!

Liking my Samsung Galaxy, but my wife will be interested in this one for sure.

Competition is good.  Hate on Apple if you want, but you likely wouldn't have that great android OS if it weren't for Apple's iOS.  

Great, now muggers will steal your phone AND cut your finger

They should have called it iphone 64

Well that's disappointing. 

Calm down ladies it's just a article about a phone you will either buy,envy or hate on get your life together instead of bickering like some girls I cheated on :D

Apple phone users will get off on fingering their iPhones 

"The PC world made the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit and it took years. Today you're going to see that Apple is going to do it on one day,"

They seriously said that? Jesus Christ, there are really braindead people in this world.

64bit CPU, and the m7, amazing camera and fingerprint scanner. Really cool features for an s update. It's not for people who like numbers (more megapixels!!! Whooohooo).This is a fantastic update.

Apple phones are smart phones for stupid people.

Another boring phone by apple.. i thought they would really pull something out of the hatt his time to try and stop the android wave.. i guess not..

boom

who needs graphics when you play touch/tilt games or games like cut the rope???

Apple news always gets the hits

yay~ fingerprint scanner! Most wanted feature ever. 

Man , the LG G2 is a much better phone but gets no coverage.

Although, no mobile news should be covered on a gaming site really.

The finger print thing was probably added by the NSA. 

The iPhone 6 will require a seaman sample.

@Bowser05 Not that im some kind of conspiracy freak, but governments would LOVE to have fingerprints and DNA from every one of its citizens. Or to have surveillance in every household.

@Reuwsaat just keep it with you on ice.

@mccurse4456 Nintendo 64 :P

@cristianvs The thing is is that this really isn't a fantastic update, a 64bit CPU is marketing fluff. A smartphone has no reason for the address space of a 64 bit processor. Not until it has to address more than 4GB of RAM, and that won't be for several years. The M7 yanks some of the motion sensing off the CPU but whos to say how much processing power that uses anyway... The camera you can't comment on until someone uses it in the real world. The fingerprint scanner is kinda cool but its a gimmick that's all. I love apple design but they need to put the tech in to justify the price.

@SIDEFX1 Are you retarded? You say that Apple phones are for stupid people, yet you can't figure out what biometric security might be used for on a phone. You sum up the mentality of so many Apple haters with your stupidity. 

@AimlessOne88 There is just... One more thing...

@telaros Newsflash: The majority of people like their toys.

Look at the car industry.. See all those options they have available for your car?

It's cheep plastic, crappy camera and ooooh buttons on the back (trying so hard to be different with stupid gimmicks). Yah, what a great phone.

@speedy5212 most games are sold in that device .. I dont like playing games on it .. but I think it should be on the gaming news 

@Lawdog1521 Seaman... I remember that game haha.

@Lawdog1521 Why do you care? Anything to hide?

@Lawdog1521 Well according to Apple, the fingerprint data never actually leaves your phone at any point and is locked away in some special part of the processor that can ONLY be accessed by the fingerprint sensor.

Now, I do believe that the data won't be transmitted over the internet, although I'm a little cautious as to how easy it'll be to decrypt that data once a fingerprint has been put into the phone.  Who knows.  I'm sure we'll probably see articles online claiming about the validity of the feature or the vulnerability of it in a month or 2.

64 bit is not fluff and its about more than memory. It means that the CPU can Handel a word in each cycle. That wouldn't be anything on an android sure, but since apple makes the iOS the API and many of the apps it's absolutely important. The m7 seems cool but sure, it needs to be tested to see what it can do.

I am a photographer and the iPhone has always had the best cameras (people who understand photos don't read Megapixels and think its good). A bigger sensor is the best thing they can do, instead of packing more pixels into a already small sensor.

Fingerprint scanner will be mostly beneficial for companies who value security sure, but that's not a bad thing. And also a good for me (and I bet many others) who don't use a password. Making it easier to secure your phone.

@jellyman68 Yes that is exzactly what I think of people who use Apple phones. Yes I did not need to figure that out you dope. I mean, WOW, Apple iPhones will now use finger print for security..  Dum..

@yourdem1ze @Lawdog1521 My God, the incredible sheep behavior of the American people never ceases to amaze me.

This is the most tired bullshit argument of all.

"if You have nothing to hide...."

Do you people like you even THINK about the consequences of a mindset like this.  Do you even UNDERSTAND why people are concerned about Privacy issues.  Are you such a blind, drooling zombie that you trust the powers that be so implicitly that you will just believe anything you are told, or is it because you are too fucking intellectually lazy to care about anything beyond what's on TV, or your fantasy football picks for the week?

I don't even know why I bother responding to people like you.  You don't get it, and you don't want to, and your ignorance is willful and a badge of honor.

It's SO cool and trendy to comply.

You deserve neither liberty or security.

@yourdem1ze @Lawdog1521 Nice try NSA. You won't fool Lawdog1521 that easily.

Haha omg. You should really not call anyone retarded or stupid, you are the definition. A little lesson for you (don't worrie, it's not about all this technical stuff, I know that's way beyond you level of understanding). When you end a sentence with a question mark ( ? ), its a QUESTION. This is why it is called a question mark. Get it?I'm sure your teacher/trainer will give you a banana and maybe even let you out of your cage when you show her what you have learned :)

@SIDEFX1And phones needs finger print data for wha...?

@jellyman68 Agian, I was not. 

@SIDEFX1 @jellyman68 Yes you were. 

@jellyman68 I was not asking a question the first time u idiot.

@SIDEFX1 @jellyman68 It's even worse if your laptop has a fingerprint scanner and you still couldn't figure out what one might be used for on the iPhone. 

@jellyman68 Nah dude. I am not even trying. Seriously, I use finger print for my laptop- Whoopee.. 
With all the other security options- the finger print is just another so so. I am not going to bother replying to U anymore. 

@SIDEFX1 @jellyman68 I know my comment caught you out and backed you into a corner, but that's the best you could come back with? It doesn't even make sense.