iPhone X- How We tested FaceID:
With everyone ragging about the new iPhone X I found it appropriate to pick this article from the Wall street Journal. As we have all seen and or heard about the iPhone X and all its fancy new gadgets that come along with it (one of the main features being the faceID) one would expect someone to really test the limits and performance of it to see if it holds up to its word. To further elaborate, the facial ID is composed of a complex system of cameras and sensors that turns your face into the password. So all you have to do is look down at your phone to unlock it.
Furthermore, the author of this article wanted to test the facial recognition to see if it could be tricked. However, he failed in trying to do so. In his testings, the facial recognition was able to recognize him even when wearing hats, scarves, earrings, glasses and other everyday accessories. Not only that, but it was also able to recognize him and unlock, in the back of a dark car at night and in a pitch black bedroom. He even tried to trick the faceID by using cutout photos of himself to try and unlock the phone, but it didn't budge. He even created a face mask mold of himself, and it still didn't work. He stated that "according to Apple the chances of a random person to look at your iPhone X and unlock it is one in a million, however the chances are a lot greater for identical twins or similar looking siblings.
In all, this article portrays the quality and excellent performance displayed by the new iPhone X facial recognition. The author is marketing and informing readers of the superiority of the new features of the iPhone X. These well performing features create a very competitive environment for other phones that have the same features, however do not perform as well at the iPhone X. For example, the author explains that the galaxy note 8 (which has facial recognition) was fooled more than once with the paper cutout, was not fooled one bit by the iPhone X during the experiment. In addition, the iPhone X would be categorized in the "introduction stage" of the product life cycle, because it brings something fresh and brand new to the table. In this, the iPhone X will be targeting customers that already have an iPhone and are ready for an upgrade and even people that do not have an iPhone. I mean lets be honest, everyone for the most part, want whats brand new and trending.
I find the new Face ID function interesting as recently it was reported that two brothers, who are 5 years apart demonstrate that they can both unlock one brother's new iPhone X using its Face ID. They both wear similar glasses so it only worked when they wore the glasses.
ReplyDeleteI actually find this very interesting. However, I don't think this is a good change as for the new iPhone 10, as for the consumers I should say. A lot of people complained and had issues with the Face ID feature. It caused troubles in regards of privacy. Now a days, people use their smartphone for all kind of things. Therefore, hopefully this feature won't hurt people in the long run. And hopefully they change or enhance the Face ID in terms of restrictions.
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