Vivo seems more and more likely to beat both Samsung and Apple to the commercial under-glass fingerprint recognition punch with the Xplay 7.
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Instead of using an ill-placed Touch ID fingerprint sensor, Apple's iPhone 8 could rely exclusively on facial recognition for biometric authentication.
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The all-new Qualcomm Fingerprint Sensor for Display sounds like everything Samsung needs to get rid of awkwardly placed rear-mounted scanners.
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It sounds highly unlikely, but it looks legit on video: the world's first smartphone with a screen-embedded fingerprint sensor may come from Vivo.
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"Various technical limitations", including security, could force Samsung to hold off on under-glass fingerprint recognition adoption once again.
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In addition to fully supporting the world's three fast-growing mobile payment apps, Mastercard has been working on its own evolved biometric card.
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A phone that's physically secure not only offers you an extra layer of protection in terms of privacy and security but also keeps you out of trouble.
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Alcatel has been reinventing itself in 2016 with a hefty and diversified portfolio of mobile products. Low-end phones and tablets came first while several phones are yet to come in Android and Windows 10 Mobile flavors. While we’re focused on the Idol 4 and Idol 4S, we’ve been hearing ...
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Being a Nexus user affords you some substantial perks, including regular access to the latest Android security fixes. And while we usually expect such fixes to, well, fix things, this month’s new batch has reportedly been causing owners of the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P some headaches, as a growing group of users complain about fingerprint-scanner failures.The gist of this issue is that on both the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P, some users are having problems getting their phones to scan their fingerprints. This ...
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Fingerprint security can be one of the best ways to keep your smartphone safe, as it both relies on something that’s unique to you, the phone’s owner, and when it works well, its operation can be nearly seamless. But key to its security is making sure that it only recognizes your fingerprints as authorized – if another user could easily add their own, that protection goes right out the window. ...
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A couple weeks back we got what sounded like good – if not just a few months later than we’d like – news: Sony was just about to bring some of its latest flagship hardware to the US as it prepared to start sales of the Xperia Z5 and Xperia Z5 Compact. Better late than never, though, right? Well, if these were the same Z5 and Z5 Compact as we’d seen elsewhere, perhaps we could learn to be happy that we were getting them at all, but it wasn’t long before a new wrinkle developed in this ...
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An interview with Lenovo SVP Chen Xudong has been strung out and splayed apart over and over again as bloggers translating the transcript have been left drawing some troubling conclusions. One of those conclusions was that the company would be dropping the Moto E and Moto G, Motorola Mobility’s best-selling phone of all-time, from future production.However, Chen only said that the Moto G will continue to face challenges in high-priced markets. ...
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Can’t you feel that holiday cheer, Samsung? The Ga-la-la-la-laaa-la-la-laxy A9 is back on the eggnog overflow and we have more details as to what it tows. And there’s also a little quirk that made us shift in our seats just a little bit. See if you can spot it and guess what we think it means while we go through the laundry list.The new leak from Weibo seems ...
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The current breadth of mobile payment systems is still fairly limited. We’ve focused in-depth pieces on the three major efforts from Android, Apple and Samsung so far. In regards to the chaebol of the group, it says that Samsung Pay has ...
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Samsung’s pretty satisfied with its new mobile payments system that it’s worked hard at putting together. Money’s been trading hands at a good clip. The company’s Injong Rhee has been rallying retail support in the US. But one of the big stumbling blocks that appears in contrast with
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