The first company to launch a smartphone with a fingerprint sensor was Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), Motorola. Later, more manufacturers that also added this functionality such as Apple, Samsung and LG, Sony was one of the companies that took the longest to implement it with the Xperia Z5. Each manufacturer place this fingerprint sensor in a different area of the device. Apple implements it on the home button located on the front of the device just like Samsung. Other manufacturers choose to install it on the back of the device, something that I neither see practical nor comfortable when unlocking the device. Sony, for its part, includes it on the side of the device, where the button to turn off the screen is located.
Many are the concepts that circulate in recent weeks about how the next iPhone could be. Some of them venture to show us a device with a screen that covers the entire front of the device something that would be ideal but would cause the home button to have to be moved to another part of the device unless it was integrated into the screen, something that seemed not to be possible in the short term.
But it seems that if it is possible to integrate the fingerprint sensor into a screen, at least as presented by LG. The Korean firm has managed to put a 0,03-millimeter sensor on the screen of a smartphone. This technology baptized with the name LG Innotek will allow all manufacturers, not only Apple, to take more advantage of the device's frame by adding more screen, and eliminating the physical button that is also a possible entry of water and dust that can endanger the operation of the same.
A company spokesperson has stated that LG has already is in discussions with various device manufacturers who want to start using these new screens with the integrated sensor to launch them on the market this year. Will Apple be one of them? In recent months, a lot has been rumored about the new screens that future iPhones will implement, with OLED technology and that they would be manufactured by both Samsung and LG. According to Tim Cook this year the new iPhone will bring important news. Is this one of them?
Apple already has that, what happens is that it is very slow to remove it and it has it in prototypes, in fact it has had patents for that for years, it is what happens when you take out patents and rumors that the competition overtakes you by slow. But it is what Apple plans to get out in the 7 or 7s, but because it is slow is what happens to it, it wants to save everything and only get one thing in each model and not even just a small update because what happens happens that is advance.
fake, the first smartphone with a fingerprint sensor was the motorola atrix
True Hugo, I had passed. Rectified.
Greetings and thanks for the note.
And before the first smartphone with a fingerprint sensor, there was a compaq pda that you could attach a phone backpack with what perhaps should also be considered a smartphone, that is if the sensor was bad enough (actually like the Samsung until s6 arrived)
You are supposed to be the journalist and you dedicate an investigation before writing something. Consequently you enlighten us with your knowledge. But it is a shameful act, that you do not know that the first smartphone with a fingerprint sensor was the Motorola atrix. Too bad you have access to a blog like this and don't take even the slightest time to research what you're going to write.
Very non-subjective assessment that inserting the fingerprint reader in the back is uncomfortable ... I think you haven't tried it, I also have an iPhone, but when I have picked up a smartphone with a fingerprint sensor or button on the back, I have to recognize that it has been very comfortable and practical for me.
Why is it that people do not inform themselves before publishing a blog. Hugo is right, the first fingerprint-sensitive smart phone was the motorola atrix, it was a smart phone with android. Please apple fans don't cry 😉