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  • Actually, putting the sensor there kind of makes sense as your finger is naturally there when grabbing or holding the phone.

  • This is exactly what Project Ara will be like.

    Want a finger print scanner? No problem. Pop out the extra speaker module, and pop in the finger print scanner.

    I think the boot up, and easy photo snap of the Project Ara phone is the MOST underrated event that happened at Google I/O.

  • So anyone think Google should make a Micro USB directly connected finger print sensor for Nexus5 2013, Nexus6 and more devices? Maybe Google could ship this sensor to your hands, if you use Android pay ,all for free! Are you OK?

  • The image for the video above looks like it’s about sexual harassment and she’s the predator, hah

  • Wow i could not make it to the 2 minute mark cause her hand movements were driving me crazy. SMH! her voice was annoying as well its as if she was speaking to a bunch of kindergarten students.

  • It’ll be nice if they place the fingerprint scanner underneath the display, on the bottom portion of the display and not on the back of the device.

  • I wonder if the nexus finger print scanner will work has good apple /Samsung and others

  • The back of the phone is the correct placement for the fingerprint sensor imo. Much easier to use one handed and you have a better grip on the phone compared to awkwardly reaching for a home button.

  • The fingerprint location kind of makes sense if LG is making the new Nexus 5 (as rumored). They like those rear, center-mounted buttons…

  • I wonder if it’s possible to have third party accessories for fingerprint sensors that plug into the phone’s charging port or headphone jack. That way, pre-Android M devices can take advantage of this.

    • Dude, I had never seen that, but I was TOTALLY going to suggest that maybe it is a sticker and has NFC… therefore could add a fingerprint scanner to any phone. The dimple on the back of the N6 would be a great spot.

  • I would imagine Apple will copy this in a couple of years and call it revolutionary new feature!

        • I don’t mind it when switching between Android and iOS. I’m open like that 🙂

          • There is nobody in mobile tech anywhere near as disgusting and morally bankrupt as Apple as far as it affects the consumer, not even Google.

          • Really? Blatantly abusing broken patent systems, exploitation of courts around the world with said bogus patents, continually using patents determined by courts as false to threaten an entire industry with expensive litigation and in an attempt to prevent realistic competition, manipulation of consumers that resulted from Apples fake patent game. All of it bad for competition /innovation and as a result bad for the consumer!

            Heck, we’re talking about the same company that, despite being the richest in the world, illegally organized publishers in order to place fixed prices on e-books that ripped off consumers for untold millions , an act that cost them over a half billion in fines as a result of the anti-trust lawsuit that followed ! This is the same company that blames users, their own customers for faulty product design or back doors for hackers left open in the find my phone service.

            This is all news to you? Everyone knows that Apple is scum. I understand that other companies have done bad things but I’m taking about assaults on the consumer here, I couldn’t care less about what these companies do to each other so long as the consumer is not harmed by it.

          • Oh so stuff that isn’t a big deal. Tom Cruise is in scientology but I still pay to see his movies. Nobody cares in the long run.

          • Hear that everyone? As long as durden doesn’t care, its OK for these companies to pull this crap.

          • Crazy. People weren’t buying Samsung phones and making them the biggest in the world because Samsung makes the best, many were doing so in support of Samsung and their battle with Apple . Most years some other company made a better Android phone like when I bought my HTC ONE M7. The year prior I had a Galaxy S3 and while supporting Samsung wasn’t my only motivation for buying that device Apples unethical ways certainly played a role in my decision. It’s a sentiment I’ve seen echoed on threads like these for years!

          • Lol, spoken like a truly brainwashed iFan and now one needs to equate ones harmless beliefs as equal to a companies harmful actions.

            Pathetic really, I thought you could do better.

          • Wow, so much anger. Did all that typing provide you with the therapeutic relief you so obviously need?

          • Most recently? Trying to force Spotify to limit free music because its not in Apple’s interests.

          • Eh Spotify would do it regardless with it without Apple most likely. I’m not worried, I don’t use it.

          • Oh noes, Facebook has all these app permisions, I don’t care, but some do. Why? Tinfoil.

          • Doesn’t matter whether you care or not, fact is Apple is a disgusting rotten evil company..

          • Deflection. Nobody said a thing about Facebook nor app permissions.

            Tin foil is for things that aren’t happening. What I mentioned is happening.

          • iOS works great for what I need my phones for. Don’t need to tinker to feel better about myself.

          • The fact that you think it is to feel better about yourself just shows how damaged you really are.

          • Lol damaged, okay. My Android phone works great stock and rommed. But if I had the choice to stay on one forever? Stock.

          • It has nothing to do with romming. You think so small.

            Point in case: my company employs me to build many things but amongst them are mobile apps.

            I have a Nexus 6. I don’t want the USB port to eventually wear out so I debug and install these apps while developing them via wireless adb. Apple cannot do thar outside of Test Flight, though you have zero access to debugging like you do in Android without xcode. Which won’t be connecting wirelessly.

            Which leads

          • Sure if you are just a consumer. Elevate your position and you will see how limited you actually are.

          • You have a point, I don’t understand why people go crazy over this android vs apple thing, like who cares, just use what does the job for you.

          • Which is fine, but when an idiot makes comments like they don’t need to tinker to feel better about themselves, you know you are just dealing with a moron.

      • Actually there are some things Android does better. There are things that Apple does better. Both have their positives and negatives. I like both systems and I’m glad we have choices. Hell, even windows does some things better.

        • I’m no fan of apple and I don’t plan on buying any phones from them ever. But this is a great comment!

    • Unless somehow it uses NFC to communicate to the phone… Sticker fingerprint readers for everyone!

  • When creating new things its common practice to use what you have. I would say its far more likely they just added a fingerprint scanner onto a Nexus 5 as a proof of concept etc.

  • Or maybe it’s just a little black sticker they put on the back to simulate what it would be like.

  • So the ultimate question is why did they modify a Nexus 5 instead of a Nexus 6?

      • meh?? may be because you can’t afford? N6 is the best and only phone to experience Lollipop.

        • No I have a $800 GS6 Edge 64gb lol. I just don’t like the size or camera. Among a few other things.

          • enjoy ruined Lollipop + bonus Samsung bloat..and wait forever for 5.1 & 5.1.1 & Android M..

          • I had a Moto X 2014 before this and I’ll have a Nexus 5 2015 after this. I don’t mind Samsung’s Lollipop and I don’t have bloat because root. I won’t have to wait long for 5.1 because the update is coming any day now. And by the time Android M comes out I’ll be buying the Nexus 5.

          • Blah blah blah….my phone is better than your phone….blah blah blah…

        • Wow. Everyone stand-back. Where have Captain Elite here.

          Maybe turn the dial down on the doosh-O-Meter there big guy.

          I had the N6…it’s an OK phone with it’s pluses and minuses.

          • I’m a Nexus fanboy and even I agree with you here. The N6 was a massive disappointment for me. If I wasn’t locked in, I’d be on something else already. Though I will say that most of the disappointment is with Lollipop, which is just so half-baked.

          • I don’t mind LP at all. It does its thing, and it does it a bit different.

            size is in the eye of the beholder as far as “too big” or “too small.” But I’m 6’5″ with large hands and I found the phone to be unwieldy.

            But to argue you are somehow “elite” because you could afford a phone…come on dude….really?

    • Perhaps the way the internals are setup, it was easier to modify the N5 rather than the N6?

    • They knew they would be introducing finger print, but left this out as a feature? Why not have it installed to future proof

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