Of course, they are aware of this. When you enable it, a warning is shown saying that the lock can be bypassed by using a picture or even with a person that looks like you! :)
Almost all reviews have been rather glowing about the feature, noting it's fast. And Google themselves have said that it could be faster, but that people didn't believe it was doing anything without adding a delay.
Is this is a serious question? The "lock" is to prevent pocket presses... yes, my warm legs set off the screen rather often on accident. Normally you have to slide to unlock, this is actually faster, surprisingly.
Most people I know don't use a pattern, pin or password. If you're doing it for a security reason, then face unlock is just silly.
(For what it's worth, it would be much easier to grab a complete stranger's phone and get the pattern unlocked than the face unlock. The finger marks for the screen unlocks are incredibly easy to see)
Yes, it was. Silly me, I figured that if Google was piling features on to Android devices, that they would be important. If it's just an alternative to slide to unlock, then it really is a pointless stupid gimmick. I guess I gave them too much credit.
You know what the antithesis of good mobile development is? Piling on gimmicky features just because. IMO, Face Unlock is indicative of everything that is still wrong with the direction of Android, which is such a shame because overall Android 4.0 is indicative that they are trying to shake that image by focusing more on the core experience.
I am seeing the samething on Chrome 15 and Windows XP. I wonder if there is some issue with the font rendering engine on XP. Additionally, if you zoom in 3 or 4 times on the page the font suddenly clears up.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 38.6 ms ] threadThe general refinement of the Android UX is by far the most impressive feature of 4.0. Face Unlock is just a lame, poorly thought out gimmick IMO.
Of course, they are aware of this. When you enable it, a warning is shown saying that the lock can be bypassed by using a picture or even with a person that looks like you! :)
Most people I know don't use a pattern, pin or password. If you're doing it for a security reason, then face unlock is just silly.
(For what it's worth, it would be much easier to grab a complete stranger's phone and get the pattern unlocked than the face unlock. The finger marks for the screen unlocks are incredibly easy to see)
You know what the antithesis of good mobile development is? Piling on gimmicky features just because. IMO, Face Unlock is indicative of everything that is still wrong with the direction of Android, which is such a shame because overall Android 4.0 is indicative that they are trying to shake that image by focusing more on the core experience.
In Firefox it improves, but it's still weird: http://i.imgur.com/c606f.png