Google Pixel 10 series to come with an upgraded ultrasonic fingerprint scanner
Google Pixel 10 series to come with an upgraded ultrasonic fingerprint scanner
JUST PUT IT ON THE BACK...
I hate that my screen blinds me and people nearby when I use biometrics. I understand the security problems with bio too, I guess I ought to just delete the option.
Ultrasonic fingerprint sensors aren't optical like the older under-screen ones. They don't need to go bright to get a reading.
This will not blind you, it shouldn't boost brightness at all.
Ahh. My 8 really ticks me off.
*on the power button.
My s10e had this, and it's the best IMO.
You can also swipe it to pull down the notification shade.
Pixel 9 pro fold has it on the power button. Its nice.
I hate that. My pixel tablet has it as well, and besides it being terribly unreliable which is surely just that particular implementation, it's also annoying when it does work. Just want to quickly turn on the screen to pause music or check a notification or something, and it'll just immediately unlock. No thanks, I prefer separate actions to be separate buttons.
The pixel 9 doesn't do the blinding thing anymore, and it works pretty well. This is apparently an even better version of that.
Don't disagree that on the back should be a thing too, the sensor on the back of the pixel 5 (IIRC?) was perfectly quick and had a few useful gestures you could use it for. I doubt it would increase the BOM much to just have both considering we're talking at phones that cost a grand
Yea my 5a has the correct placement - I upgraded out of wanting a better phone camera. Got the 8 pro and not that much is different anyways.
Like others have already said the 9 doesn't use light/optics but it still sucks compared to the one on the back. I use, but generally dislike the P9 finger print reader. I've gone so far as not using a screen protector to help that stupid thing. Still has way too many error reads
Hard pass, unless they revert their AOSP policies.
Ohhh that's a finger he's looking at on the screen. The thumbnail looks like something else.
Considering this is Google we're talking about and they're moving towards the "Let's be evil for the heck of it" motto, is there a chance they're uploading the scanned biometrics for keepsies?
Probably not. IIRC for security the fingerprint data is stored and processed entirely in the reader, and not accessible at all by the OS. Of course they could have some sort of backdoor that allows collecting that data, but that would be a huge scandal waiting to happen.
In theory the biometric data lives in a special part of the phone hardware that the software can't (generally) access. It's one of the big deals about phone biometrics - it should be really hard to leak.
AFAIU, the fingerprint stored on the phone is incredibly low quality, so I'm not sure how much value it would have.
Could they mess with that? Yes. Is there profit in getting a really low quality hash of every user's fingerprint? Probably not worth the hassle.
