14 DAY TRIAL // Getting an in-display fingerprint reader ready for mass production appears to be the main challenge for phone manufacturers these days, and after both Apple and Samsung failed to do this, the latter was believed to give another try to make this happen with the release of the Galaxy Note 9 in the summer.
But as it turns out, the technology still doesn’t meet Samsung’s security standards and is very unlikely to make its way to the market with the upcoming Note 9.
That’s what KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says in a note to investors, adding that there’s a better chance the fingerprint sensor would be embedded into the glass in early 2019. This means that if Samsung wants to be the first company to offer such a feature, it has to install it on the Galaxy S10 (or whatever it’ll be called, given plans to abandon the S moniker) expected in the first months of the next year.
Coming in early 2019
According to the analyst, who has a solid track on Apple information, neither optical nor ultrasonic versions of the in-display fingerprint sensor are good enough for Samsung, despite companies like Vivo and Synaptics already showcasing such projects.
Samsung, on the other hand, is betting big on the security side of this technology, and wants to make sure that when ready, it doesn’t force the company and customers to make any kind of compromise as compared to a traditional fingerprint sensor.
In the meantime, Apple appears to be betting big on facial recognition, and this year, all iPhone models to be launched by the company are expected to feature Face ID.
There are rumors that Apple might eventually abandon the iPhone notch at some point next year, possibly marking the return to fingerprint scanners should the technology embedded into the screen be mature enough to provide uncompromised security.