Gadgetory

display notches love them or hate them we can all agree that the quest to eliminate bezels and push ever closer to that mythical 100% screen to body ratio in a smartphone is in fact stimulating a lot of innovation from hidden cameras that pop up when you're using them to using vibrating glass as your speaker but the one feature that we have in our hands today that seems to me at least less like a gimmick and more like the new paradigm moving forward is fod or fingerprint on display with the latest example of this technology right here on the 60 from oneplus so they reached out to sponsor a video all about this new fingerprint scanning technology and how exactly it works so let's unlock its secrets oh no that's just we're just unlocking the phone there's no secrets sorry wait just hold on a second okay first things first definitions ever since the first fod prototypes showed up at CES 2018 people have erroneously been calling them in screen fingerprint readers but technically speaking these implementations are actually under screen fingerprint readers so with an under screen scanner like the one in the oneplus 16 there's the glass then the AMOLED display panel then the fingerprint reader and in screen reader would be a technology we don't actually have yet where the scanner would actually be integrated within the display panel which would presumably allow large areas of the screen or even the entire screen to read your fingerprint enabling ideas like multi finger authentication or even continuous authentication where the device never stops reading your fingerprints wrote an entire session or transaction that's really fun to think about but let's bring it back to the present day because even this would have seemed pretty sci-fi a few short years ago something that's especially mind-boggling considering that oneplus themselves have been experimenting with this technology in their labs since back in 2017 when they had actually intended to include it in the 1 + 5 t as for why that never happened oneplus says the tech just wasn't ready yet the hardware was larger taking up precious space inside the phone and that module actually had to be bonded on to the screen increasing the cost and the complexity of repairs more importantly for the user though they felt that the first gen scanner just wasn't fast enough or consistent enough to ship with a oneplus logo attached now two phone generations later the 60 uses a newer smaller fingerprint module from good excessive astha stin the industry unlocking the phone in just 0.3 6 seconds unlike the capacitive fingerprint scanners that most of us are used to the 60 uses an optical scanner so the phone's display is actually used to shine a light at your finger apparently they got the best results with green light and then the reflected light that reaches the fingerprint sensor creates an image of your fingerprints minutiae the distinctive ridges valleys and Forks that comprise your unique fingerprint the scanned image is then compared to the fingerprint that was stored in your snapdragon cpus trustzone which is analogous to an iphone secure Enclave back when you first trained your fingerprint model self learning algorithms helped compare your minutiae to the saved image more quickly and if there's a match the phone unlocks lickety-split and now for some rapid-fire Q&A from some guy is it durable yeah it's rated for 300,000 unlocks is that a lot though that's about like unlocking your phone a hundred and fifty times a day for five years what if I have a screen protector then that will not affect it at all okay smart guy what if I have a bunch of scratches or even a crack on my screen okay now we're getting into your mileage may vary territory if you have a small crack then it probably won't affect it if you have a bigger crack then it's probably a good idea to train the model with the crack already there and if you have a really big crack well then should go to the gym well see you later so in summary this is something that I've been particularly amped about because even way back when the first phone started showing up with fingerprint scanners on the back I've been looking at that going wow I hate this I hate everything about it because I use my phone sitting on the desk in front of me an awful lot whether it's to browse through notifications swiped it away or whatever the case may be and having a fingerprint scanner on the front allows me to pick up my phone less which I don't know about you guys but for me is definitely a quality of life improvement so being able to just go like this go yes that's important no it's not type it eat app and be done huge improvement absolutely love it so thanks for watching guys thanks to oneplus response during this video if you guys disliked it you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there is our 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