Huawei copied Face ID from the iPhone X, the Chinese company presenting the Honor V10 yesterday, the first Android smartphone that has a camera similar to the one used in the Apple phone. Considering that Huawei always copies Apple and presents the functions as innovations, yesterday the Chinese boasted that their "Face ID" is better than Apple's.
Huawei has integrated in the Honor V10 a 3D front camera similar to the TrueDepth one, but it can record 10 times more points of a user's face, but in a period of time over 10 times longer. Huawei makes a 3D map of the user's face by scanning 300.000 of its points, 10 times more than Face ID, but in 10 seconds, compared to Face ID, which does this in less than a second.
Huawei. We copied Face ID from iPhone X, but ours is better!
Huawei says that the facial recognition made by the Honor V10 is more secure than that of Face ID thanks to the much larger number of points on the face that are scanned. I have already seen that Face ID can be fooled with a mask, repeatedly, but also by children or siblings, so it will be interesting to see what Huawei's facial recognition will be able to do.
For now, Huawei only presented the Face ID clone, along with an Animoji clone, but did not mention when it could launch this technology for customers in a new smartphone. In this idea, it could be a good few months, or maybe even 1 year, until Huawei releases the Face ID clone for customers in a smartphone, so Apple still has an advantage over its competitors.
