With the S5 Active, Samsung attempts to tackle what has long been the Achilles’ Heel of mobile electronics-the vulnerability that comes with their compactness. Ruggedness and sturdiness, on the other hand, is a desirable trait for smartphones, because we now bring our devices along to record once-in-a-lifetime events, sometimes in less-than-ideal environments. So I suspect not too many people will be up in arms over the loss of the fingerprint swipe in the S5 Active. (See “ Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone fingerprint sensor hacked,” The Guardian, April 16, 2014.) For most people, the thought of their fingerprint data falling into the wrong hands is probably worse than a stolen password. The effectiveness of the current fingerprint technology deployed by smartphone makers is debatable. The Galaxy S5 Active dropped its predecessor S5’s fingerprint sensor, a security feature to augment the usual password protection. Think of the Samsung Galaxy S5 Active (released May 2014, listed at $659 without contract by AT&T) as a stronger, tougher cousin of the Galaxy S5 (released April 2014).
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