You obviously don't have children.

Please take my advice: don't.

That's hittin the nail on the head.

Same here with my 4S, seems faster and more responsive. Maybe it's just due to my expectations but it certainly isn't slower.

No, you don't swipe. You just place your finger over it and it's done. It also can read in any orientation. You can "record" up to 5 fingerprints.

So what if they find fingerprints all over it? How do they go from there to creating a 3-D version of your print? The fingerprint scanner reads the ridges & valleys of your print from beneath the skin, so you won't be able to easily fool it. And, I've read that Authentec's patents (now Apple's patents) also include the ability to detect living tissue, so if that's in there too it would make it really hard to do.

And speed? You can doubt it will be fast, but a slow reader isn't something that I think Apple would ship. After all, they have a 64-bit fast processor that has nothing to do at the time but verify the print.

As for it being useful, about all it will get you right now is to unlock your phone and make purchases. That to me is useful enough (except now that I won't have to enter my password for every purchase I will risk eventually forgetting it), in the future it may be considerably more useful.

A UI refinement of iOS 6? Yes, there's that, plus 1500 new APIs.

And no, no great leaps in CPU or battery, but there is one thing: a fingerprint sensor that isn't your run-of-the-mill print reader. We'll know tomorrow, but from what I've read of Authentec's patents (now Apple's patents) this one should actually work quite well and be very hard to fool.

(And BTW, this slightly larger screen appeared a year ago in the iPhone 5.)

What's the goal of any tech company? To make money. How do they do that? They sell widgets.

You'd think that if you sold the most widgets then you'd make the most money, but that's not what's happening. So the "winner" isn't the one who sells the most but the one who is more successful in the company's prime directive: To Make Money.

Another thing. You say "get it out before Apple gets the same functionality to the public", but I'll guarantee that if you actually used both products for a bit, you'll be amazed at how the same functionality could possibly be so different.

This should be obvious, but maybe not...

Yeah, they can surely make them small. But with smallness comes small capacity. It should go without saying but a battery 1/10th the size of today's typical cell phone battery would only get 1/10th the talk time. So, what, 30 minutes tops?

And another thing: How would you use it to talk? Like Dick Tracy does? That's fine if you don't care about others near you hearing both sides of the conversation (and being intensely annoying to some bystanders). What do you do for a private conversation, hold it to your ear? Imagine that for a minute. It would look about as ridiculous as someone talking with a phablet.

You have any idea how much talk time you would get from a battery that can fit inside a watch? We need a few of those revolutionary battery breakthroughs that we've read about for years to happen first.

"Moral of the story. Intellectual property can only be enforced in the USA if your company has connections. Samsung violates Apple patents? 1 Beeeeelion dollar fine. Apple violates Samsung patents? Presidential pardon."

Not yet have I heard anyone mention FRAND. The patents in question are those that Samsung got incorporated into standards (essential for interoperability of cell phones) and in exchange agreed to license those patents on fair and reasonable terms. And FRAND patents being offered to Apple at 12 times what they are licensed to others, isn't exactly fair and reasonable. Unless you just hate Apple, then maybe it is.

What ticks me off about search is the number of hits that lead one to yet another search engine.

Well, why not? C'mon, you can tell us. It does look nice, and I like the way you can rotate it to get to the i/o on the back. Oh, and that little light that comes on when it's rotated. No need to cuss and go find a flashlight. A little thing, but a nice thing.

Yes, you certainly do.

Well there you go then. You just proved that Android DID copy the Apple's patent on multitouch.

Show me one Apple ad for its smartphone where it says the image on the phone is simulated. I don't think you can.