Gadgetory

one of the most buzz worthy topics of the last few years is how much companies have tried to bring the fingerprint scanner to the display if you've been following the party now daily you'll know how much Apple and Samsung have worked hard with synaptics to figure this out and still no dice 2018 seems to be the year though but this time on the hands of vivo reporting from CES 2018 this is hai medley that I in Jules Wong for Pocket now and let's go hands on people may not have much popularity in the West but back in China the company is huge oh and if you feel that the vivo unnamed smartphone looks a lot like the 1 + 5 T or the Oppo R 11s well that's because they sort of share the same parent company really to tell them apart you'd have to notice the gold accents on the champers of the chassis and the most important of all party tricks synaptics has finally figured out how to fit an optical sensor between the PCB and the OLED panel using a macro lens you'll actually are able to see the sensor hiding below the unlit panel it is persistently active though so you can press it just like you would on any galaxy flagship and you actually don't see the sensor once the display lights up the result as the phone turning on the display and the sensor using the light of the OLED panel to capture your biometric data to unlock I was actually expecting this to be far slower than competing devices but it's not I'd say it's comparable when it comes to speed at least obviously not everything is perfect those of you that were wanting for the sensor to work across a display won't really get that the area of recognition is around 5.8 by 5 point 8 millimeters which is no less than the current fingerprint scanner on any other device so I'm not really gonna dog them for this you also have to press the area on the screen with intent for the feature to work as opposed to other devices where you only touch the sensor and the display unlocks and then there's the fact that it failed to recognize my thumb a few times during my testing though that could be given the stage of production of this demo unit that we've got to see Cantus ID what's most important is that synaptics has finally figured it out it's hard to predict if we'll see products with this feature in the near future but we're hoping that at least a few 2018 flagship take advantage while that happens make sure you follow us on social media subscribe to our channel for more CES 2018 coverage you can follow Jules at point Jules on Twitter and follow me at high underscore Nevada or on Instagram bet hi meri better please give this video thumbs up if you liked what you saw I am high netting that I thanks so much for watching we'll see you soon with more