Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A

Re:Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A by mandelbrotwurst on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:33PM (#24046277)

I'm not sure which ones you mean by "those", but there have definitely been issues with phone fingerprint readers in general, e.g. when Samsung's Galaxy S10 would allow any fingerprint to unlock the phone when it had a screen protector on it (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50080586).

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Re:Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A by boring_twenties on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:42PM (#24046324)

That would definitely qualify as a those. And that is much worse than I expected.

Recent phones I've had come close to mitigating lesser concerns for me, but decide to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at the last minute.

Basically, if the password has not been entered in X time, then you must enter the password to unlock, fingerprint not accepted.

Perfect. Except instead of letting me set X to my preferred interval (30 minutes), it seems to be hardcoded to 3 days.

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