The iPhone 5 will not include only one fingerprint scanner but NFC technology inside the home button.
According to a patent Apple recently paved, the home button of the iPhone 5 will be the next featured feature Apple flagship.
The patent, discovered by PatentlyApple says that the next iPhone will feature a fingerprint scanner inside the home key, format using a 2D array of electrodues to capture fingerprints.
If the patent is correct, the home button of the iPhone 5 will have a metal ring around it, which will help to differentiate it from the iPhone 5, but will also contain the electrodes to scan fingerprints.
Last week, an image of the button 5S iPhone leaked that points to an inclusion of fingerprint reader, and had the same outer metal ring mentioned in the patent. The report said that "flex cable sensors withstand a significantly different design than the iPhone home button 5."
Previous reports supports the voices of a fingerprint scanner as well. Earlier this month, it has been suggested that the iPhone 5 will feature a home button convex tempered with fingerprint scanner, made from Sapphire Crystal. The material is beaten only in Diamond's hardness scale, and is already used in iPhone 5 camera back then would be a sensible choice and material for the iPhone 5 seconds.
However, the most recent patent claims that fingerprint scanner will be accompanied by the advance NFC technology. The button would have a double function of fingerprint scanning and NFC connectivity through a combination of optical structures and the electrodes.
The home key to improved fingerprint scanner/NFC may also be used in docking system outlined by another part of the patent, which pairs using NFC when the iPhone 5S is splined inside of it.
The 5S iPhone should launch the Apple event tomorrow, 10 September, which starts at 18 UK time.
Next, read our roundup of iPhone 5 c ahead of tomorrow's event.
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