Why don't more phones put the FP reader on the side?
Front reader:
>convenient all the time
>prevents high screen / body ratio
Back reader
>convenient if phone is being held
>allows high screen / body ratio
>inconvenient if phone is on table / on car mount
Side reader
>convenient all the time
>allows high screen / body ratio
It's possibly even more convenient
because often people keep their fingers near the power buttons anyway
Eventually people are just gonna do away with buttons all together. Everyone is in a rush to embed the fingerprint reader inside the screen which some companies have managed to do. Wait until the samsung S10/Note10 when they introduce it. Then it'll be embedded cameras and speakers into the screen. The future is slim and glass.
Sony isn't a big enough company in the space that copying them would be cool.
Nothing beats the lg g5, great phone and fingerprint scanner. Its on the back and doubles as a power button, just leave your phone upside down, by time you bring it up its already unlocked
Lefties would get massive butthurt.
imagine if you didnt have to flip your phone up and down all the time when you have it on a desk
you cant tell me that's more conveinient somehow
I have an XZP and shit doesn't work 10% of the time
My Huawei tablet had a finger print reader one the side too. It worked well
Was it fussy at all about which finger/hand you used?
I agree entirely OP. Functionally I think having it on the front is the best but with the bezel free future we're headed for the side is the next best place (until under screen fingerprint readers get as good as normal ones). I suspect more people don't put it on the side because it makes it so the phone can't taper off on the edges. It limits the aesthetic design in that way.
Also, backfags are deluding themselves. It's not any more ergonomic, you've just gotten used to it so you believe it is. Having it on the back requires you to pick the phone up if you want to unlock it. Have it on a car mount, can't unlock it without taking it off, have it on a desk, can't unlock it without picking it up.
>Oh but my finger just FALLS SO NATURALLY into the cen-
Shut the fuck up.
Why do you lock your phone on your desk? Porn? Just setup some smartlock at your permanent desk.
Left or right handed, you could use a FP reader on the power button
Right handed people would have thumb sitting over power button, but lefties would have their pointer or middle finger
Why would we need FP reader in the first place?
razer did
If you drive and use your phone you deserve to die in a fiery crash.
There could be a fingerprint sensor placed on the side, but iirc Apple has a patent on sensors being embedded in the power button. That's pretty much why.
>what is Google maps
>what is Spotify
not everyone who "uses their phone while driving"
is texting
many are just putting a song on, etc
>Nothing beats the lg g5
Phones without defective motherboards which inevitably bootloop do.
>Apple has a patent on sensors being embedded in the power button.
but do they have a patent on the power button being embedded in a sensor?
What about phone cases?
>Side reader
>>convenient all the time
This is wrong. On the table, the finger used to activate your phone (thumb in this case) is on the left (index finger is also left, interacting with the screen. YOU HAVE to pick up the phone to use finger print reader.
logic'd again.
There is no better place for fingerprint reader than the front.
Side means the fp reader needs to be narrow, though.
Still way better placement than back, which is just fucking retarded. Hopefully once the fp readers get embedded in screens this nonsense will go away.
>the finger used to activate your phone (thumb in this case)
You can use more than one finger for unlocking, dummy.
I wish I was a cute Japanese girl with a seafoam green Sony phone
I'm a lefties, and have a z5, I registered middle and pointy finger in the reader, works well, even on lineageos