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cdmagurus.com
09-12-2013, 03:26 PM
Did you know that the iPhone 5S wasn't the first mobile device with a fingerprint scanner? Nope! That honor belongs to the HP iPaq PPC 5500, a PocketPC device from 2003. For a more modern device, look no further than the Motorola ATRIX 4G, a 2011 Android phone that was pretty exciting for its time. Unfortunately, fingerprint scanners in phones never quite took off. Let's find out why.

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