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what's up everyone John retina from TechnoBuffalo here a few days ago we posted our written review of the HTC One Maxx and the biggest question you have is in regards to that little black square right below the camera the fingerprint reader I'm gonna walk you through how it works how well it might not work what about the placement how it works below the lens and all kinds of other business that has to do with that guy right there let's go and get started so this little black square is the fingerprint scanner on the HTC One Maxx so first let me show you how it works and I'll walk you through the setup process what it can do and I'll show you how easy or not easy it is to you so first location it is located directly below the camera lens to make this work you have to swipe your finger you can't just leave your finger on there you got to swipe down so you inevitably have to swipe your dirty greasy french fry fingers all over that lens which never makes for good pictures so the phone is locked right here if you try and unlock and normally and you swipe up its gonna say a swipe your finger to confirm so it's pretty easy to do something you can know where the fingerprint scanner is if you go ahead and swipe your finger right down it unlocks and it locks very quickly and almost the first time every try actually I haven't had any false unlocks or haven't happened how to ask me to redo it it works really really well the tricky part here though the phone is so big it's figuring out where that fingerprint scanner is and you fit on the back it feels very similar to the lens soft sometimes you're swiping your finger just on the lens let me show you the settings and what it can do cuz it does more than just unlock the device so I'll jump into settings will go to fingerprint scan it's gonna ask me for my fingerprint I'll turn it over do a little swipe and here we go so I've got it set four different fingers you can have it set for a few different ones if you'd like you can also have it do different things let's go ahead and learn your fingerprint sided set for my right hand will do my left hand here so you go to continue and we'll ask you which finger you want to use so I want to use my left hand this time so you go ahead and tap the finger and you swipe it over three times I'm gonna do it right here two vibrates each time one two three and one more time rather four times successful and then it's going to ask what we want to settle for so assign an app to quick lunch so it's very cool you can use different fingers to watch app so I can use my right hand to unlock the phone in my left hand to launch an app you can do pretty cool things with it let's say you wanted to unlock the camera and make that work where you can choose from different apps and unlock your really a ton of choices that you've got or launches apps immediately but the camera one makes the most sense so we just did left index finger so you don't want that to unlock we wanted to go to camera so go ahead hit apply go and go back home let's say the phone is locked I want to unlock it I can use my right finger and swipe and the phone will be unlocked all right so if I want to launch the camera or use a different finger you have to go ahead and tap that power and lock button find the right spot on the phone do a little finger swipe action and you get the camera tool in there nap situation I did have actually errors the first time I've seen that happen on the film but I swiped it a few more times I was able to load the camera interestingly though when the phone is unlocked and you're just using it and you try and swipe your finger there it's not going to be active and it's not going to watch a camera you got to do it from your sort of pre lock screen but it does work very well here the big issues are since a phone is so large it's really hard to find you got I almost turn that thing over and swipe your fingers the utility and the ease of use really aren't there it comes to security HTC said the same thing that Apple does they're not sending your fingerprints anywhere they're stored encrypted on the device but you can choose well not you want to use it or not use it it's up to you I prefer to not use it because it's so big but if it was on the front its integrated to the home button for example or something similar to have touch ideas I think it'd be really really useful but the way it is right now it's just too hard to use and almost impossible to find but you choose to use it or not use it it's up to you the placement makes no sense to me especially right below the camera lens but whatever it's worth there is a demonstration of the fingerprint scanner on the HTC One Maxx I'm Jen reading your from TechnoBuffalo let me know what you think leave it your comments down below till next time I'll see you up everyone its Ashlee thanks so much for watching that most recent video if you enjoyed it please click on the word subscribe right underneath me to get tons 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