Samsung proves to be much braver than Apple and has plans to abandon the implementation of fingerprint readers in its own smartphones. The information comes from an apparent manager of the Samsung company, stating that the idea of giving up fingerprint readers is based on the fact that they are outdated.
Apple implemented a fingerprint reader for the first time in the iPhone in 2013, that is 3 and a half years ago, but others played with such technologies before it. However, since 2013 fingerprint readers have become a mandatory feature for any top smartphone, but Samsung considers the technology to be outdated.
In this idea, those from Samsung have already implemented an iris scanner in the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, but it doesn't turn out to be that good, so Samsung is experimenting with something else. More precisely, in the Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung would have decided to use a facial recognition system because the iris scanner is not good enough.
Samsung wants to give up fingerprint readers
Considering that the iris scanner is not the solution for removing fingerprint readers, Samsung will most likely rely on facial recognition. The use of such a biometric security system does not require the use of an iris scanner and frees up space in the terminals for other components, Samsung probably wanting to take advantage of this.
Apart from Samsung, those from Apple probably have similar plans, the iPhone 8 will include a 3D camera and an infrared sensor for facial recognition. In this idea, Apple and Samsung are probably of the same mind and would intend to make the fingerprint readers forgotten to replace them with other, perhaps, innovative technologies.
To be completely honest, I don't know how successful Samsung and Apple could be with giving up fingerprint readers in the next 2 years. I think that Apple and Samsung could launch new smartphones without fingerprint readers only in 2019, and in the meantime they will keep the components to use them in tandem with facial recognition.
"We will kill the fingerprint, it's obsolete." A Samsung staff said.
- 萌萌 的 电教 (@MMDDJ_) March 10, 2017
