What's the point of cars? We have bicycles. What's the point of a washing machine? We have creeks and rocks. What's the point of phones? We have pen and paper. What's the point of a touch screen cell phone? We have flip phones.
For what end? Security. To help adoption of a Microsoft NFC solution that may actually be able to be used.
Really? No one sees the potential benefit of a facial recognition solution?
Never mind, Google has several patents regarding tacking movement. Microsoft's still hard at work on their notification center.
Google patents new facial recognition technology to let users unlock phones with a wink and a smile
Nothing against the fingerprint scanners, Microsoft may implement them if they're still making phones. I was just thinking about a solution that wouldn't require many hardware modifications.