When the iPhone 5 finally hit the masses, it was missing one major feature: NFC. While most every other major flagship smartphone has NFC and support for contact payments, bump sharing and the like, ...

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A patent application filed by Apple in Europe may have given us the clearest functionality of the iPhone 5S‘s home button. The forthcoming flagship smartphone expected to be unveiled Tuesday at a ...

Apple's patent on a biometric scanner implemented on phone and its acquisition of company that deals with fingerprint scanning give this rumour some credibility. The rumours that the upcoming iPhone ...

The Apple iPhone 5S (or iPhone 6, or whatever you want to call it) has been tipped to arrive with a fingerprint scanner before. And now those rumours look a little more solid. According to the China ...

Apple has filed for a European patent (via Free Patents) detailing a system for combining a fingerprint scanner with near field communication (NFC) technology, allowing for dual modes of operation in ...