iPhone 8 it will have a fingerprint reader integrated into the screen, this confirms all the rumors that have appeared lately from a variety of sources, and things seem to be quite safe. The Apple company has been working on this technology for several years for sure, and with the iPhone 8 it will try to "take on" the manufacturers of Android terminals, which still cannot offer something like this for customers.
Last week Qualcomm and Vivo presented a smartphone that can read fingerprints through the screen, the technology going to be similar to the one iPhone 8 will have. Qualcomm and Vivo presented this technology for the first time, but this does not mean that it will be launched before the appearance of the iPhone 8, Qualcomm already confirming this for the press present at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Shanghai.
Qualcomm's technology is not yet ready for commercial launch, Vivo admitting that it does not know when it will launch the smartphone presented as a prototype, so it will not appear before the iPhone 8. Considering these things, it is quite clear that the iPhone 8 will it had a fingerprint reader integrated into the screen for the first time, far ahead of any Android smartphone.
iPhone 8 – the function offered for the first time in 2017
Even if Apple did not demonstrate the future revolutionary technology for the iPhone 8 to the press, it is most likely already prepared a few months ago. If the iPhone 8 will have a fingerprint reader integrated into the screen, it is already ready for public release, because Apple ordered the components for the future smartphone in May and would not have done it if the technology was not ready.
Qualcomm still needs to solve the accuracy and speed issues for its technology, including working through thicker screens, and the iPhone 8 already has it all figured out, according to rumors. Practically, without boasting, the Apple company is going to launch in iPhone 8 a revolutionary technology that will not soon end up in any Android smartphone under development or not.
"The ultrasonic fingerprint recognition installed on Vivo's prototype model should be the latest 2.1 version which, compared with the previous version, offers better scan-through and can distinguish between real fingers and artificial clones. However, we think there are still a few technological challenges to be addressed, including: (1) scan-through ability still has room for improvement; (2) slower to enable; and (3) slower response.”
The even more interesting part is that this expensive technology could be missing from many Android terminals released after the iPhone 8, because most customers have no problems with the fingerprint readers in the case. In this idea, to keep costs down, smartphones released after the iPhone 8 could come without an in-screen fingerprint reader to be cheap.
Following this trend, the iPhone 8 could offer an in-screen fingerprint reader for at least a year before the competitors, a situation somewhat similar to that regarding 3D Touch. Huawei then presented the technology before Apple, but did not implement it in terminals until many months after the iPhone 6S was launched.
