{"id":1006,"date":"2009-02-25T12:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/fingerprint-scanners-never-caught-on-in-windows-mobile-devices\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T12:32:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:32:31","slug":"fingerprint-scanners-never-caught-on-in-windows-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/fingerprint-scanners-never-caught-on-in-windows-mobile-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingerprint Scanners Never Caught on in Windows Mobile Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Fingerprint scanners have been available on a few WIndows Mobile devices since at least 2003\/2004 (perhaps earlier). The HP iPAQ h5550, for example, was introduced around this period with a fingerprint scanner. Such biometric components have not caught on in the intervening years. One possibility is that it is probably inconvenient to take off a glove (in cold environments) just to unlock a PDA or phone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<cite>Originally posted as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobiledevicestoday\/hardware\/how_much_security_do_you_need_on_your_smartphone_109672.asp#comment-6624435\">comment<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/people\/toddogas\/\">Todd Ogasawara<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobiledevicestoday\">mediabistro.com: MobileDevicesToday<\/a> using <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\">Disqus<\/a>.<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fingerprint scanners have been available on a few WIndows Mobile devices since at least 2003\/2004 (perhaps earlier). The HP iPAQ h5550, for example, was introduced around this period with a fingerprint scanner. Such biometric components have not caught on in the intervening years. One possibility is that it is probably inconvenient to take off a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-ge","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}