iPhone X with its TrueDepth Camera is at least 2.5 years ahead of everything that currently exists for Android phones, which is quite true from many points of view. The statement was made in relation to the iPhone X by the famous Asian analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, weighing what this component offers in relation to what exists and will exist at least in 2018 in Android phones.
iPhone X has a TrueDepth camera consisting of infrared sensors, a dot projector and an illuminator, all of which form the front camera that performs facial recognition for the phone. The Apple company struggles a lot with this TrueDepth camera for iPhone X, it being extremely difficult to manufacture, but the pain is worth it, because it will have an advantage of at least 2.5 years in front of Android competitors.
iPhone X is produced in extremely limited quantities due to the complexity of the TrueDepth camera implemented by Apple, the Cupertino partners not being able to produce enough units for production. Despite the fact that the iPhone X has major production problems due to the TrueDepth camera, those from Apple will be able to offer their functionality far ahead of the Android competitors.
iPhone X - 2.5 years ahead of Android
The iPhone X does not only have the great advantage over Android phones in the TrueDepth camera, because the software behind Face ID is also extremely important. Apple has developed an extremely advanced facial recognition system for Face ID in the iPhone X, and Android competitors are not able to develop such a thing too soon, although some of them are struggling quite a lot and investing large resources in it.
iPhone X benefits from sustained investments in the development of artificial intelligence systems, Apple spending a lot of money on companies with software of this kind. Samsung and Huawei are so far from what Face ID offers in iPhone X that they only offer Android's native system for facial recognition, which was made to joke with friends, it can also be fooled with pictures.
The iPhone X will have facial recognition as an advanced biometric security system for mobile phones for the first time this year, and the level of security it offers will not be equaled very soon. iPhone X could have a technological advance of even more than 2.5 years compared to Android phones, but it remains to be seen to what extent Samsung and Huawei will struggle to copy what Apple did in the coming years.
