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CNET News - Galaxy S5 ups smartphone ante with fingerprint payments

2014-04-10
take your heart rate and pay with your fingerprint paying with paypal Samsung has released its newest smartphone the galaxy s5 trying to outsmart competitors like the iphone 5s with new and different features like using your fingerprint to pay with paypal you can now login to your paypal app you know with your fingerprint but more importantly you can go to millions of mobile merchants across the world and actually pay with your fingerprint so no stumbling with your phone number and typing a pin no stumbling with your pic your email and your password you really just hit pay with paypal you swipe your finger print the s5 has a 16 megapixel camera a snapdragon quad core processor and a 5.1 inch display but it's not just upping the ante on smartphones Samsung is also putting pressure on Apple to come out with a much rumored iWatch Samsung is now selling two new smart watches that sync with the new phone there's tremendous amount that you can do so with those you can get notifications and really all the communication that happens on your phone you can get access to that on the small screen on your wrist but Apple may not bite and samsung may have to worry about another tech giant google samsung is going to face a lot of competition with android where the operating system that google just announced for smartwatches even musician will.i.am says he's created a standalone SmartWatch that's replaced his smartphone mine's doesn't need a phone if this is the phone but really only time will tell in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News
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