It was presented to the world just a week ago, there is still a month and a half left before it finally goes on sale, however, there is already talk of future Apple phones and how the new technologies introduced in the iPhone X will spread to the rest of the family.
To be more specific, we refer to the biometric technologies and, specifically, to the future of both Touch ID (not included in the new iPhone X) and Face ID, the new three-dimensional facial recognition technology that has just made its debut. And Ming-Chi Kuo has something to say although, I am afraid, it is something that many of us already imagine.
From inability to innovation
Ming-Chi Kuo, the popular KGI Securities analyst who yesterday announced the most possible iPhone X shortage, arrives today with a new report (is this man not sleeping?) in which he analyzes the future of Apple's biometric technologies, specifically for the 2018 iPhone that some of us are already waiting for.
In her report, Ming-Chi Kuo explains that Under-display fingerprint recognition technology is still a technological hurdle for AppleIn such a way that, most likely, the company will tip the scales towards the Face ID function and continue to invest in it. But of course, in this aspect, users would also have an important role.
Kuo notes that if the Face ID feature is well received by consumers when the iPhone X launches early next November, then Apple will probably implement a front TrueDepth camera and Face ID feature on all iPhone models. In addition, the report notes that the inclusion of this new TrueDepth camera could also lead to "many innovative applications", among which Face ID the most important, but only one of them.
Thus, while in the recently introduced generation of iPhone devices, Face ID is limited to the iPhone X, Kuo believes that this technology will reach all models launched in 2018 due to, to a large degree, to the fact that the fingerprint recognition technology under or embedded in the display remains "technologically challenging" for Apple. The main reason for this technological difficulty lies in the fact that the 3D Touch module makes the entire display panel thicker and consequently reduces precision and scanning making it difficult for an under-screen fingerprint reader to be feasible. .
Of course this It is not a different problem from what other firms have already encountered Like its most immediate competitor, Samsung, which it was rumored that it intended to include a fingerprint reader under the screen of the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, however, it was not possible to do so either.
Despite all this, and the determining importance of the technological factor, it seems that the continuation of Face ID will largely depend on the consumer's response to this technology, according to Kuo. If Face ID "doesn't impress consumers," Apple is likely to turn its attention to touchscreen development with built-in Touch ID. "However, even if that happens, Apple will still have to find ways to overcome the aforementioned technical problem," says The analyst
Whether or not Apple will return to Touch ID (remember that it has not completely abandoned it as it continues in the new iPhone 8 and 8 Plus) once integrating it into the screen is possible, is something that we do not know but still, It seems that not even Apple is sure of the acceptance of Face ID, at least as stated by Kuo.
In any case, it is paradoxical how Apple's inability to integrate Touch ID under the screen has prompted the advancement of a "new" technology (Face ID) re-three-dimensional facial recognition that, to the extent that it is accepted by users, will constitute the future of the next iPhone.
And what do you prefer, Touch ID or Face ID?
To the other models? As an 8s / plus comes out the same as the X only that with lcd display it goes brown. The biggest question was not what the new model would be like, but what they will do in 2018.
Wow that will get interesting
The truth is that I want the iPhone X to come out so that people can test Face ID properly and leave their opinions.
The Face ID during the day I do not doubt that it works wonderfully, but when it is at night and you are for example lying down listening to a podcast or the radio with the iPhone and you want to unlock it to change the station or whatever, I do not know how the experience will turn out.
In my opinion, as much improved and safe as Face ID is, Touch ID is more comfortable. I would have liked more to see an iPhone 8 / X like the one they have presented but with Touch ID integrated into the screen.