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hey I'm fly over chair at CES 2018 and the phone I have in front of me is the first one to have a fingerprint sensor integrated into the display and it actually worked so there's the first phone to have the fingerprint sensor integrated into the display so it's right in this area down here which is available to use as you would with any other smartphone display but when you lock the phone and you want to unlock it it turns into a fingerprint sensor it works exactly like the capacitive fingerprint sensor you might have seen on Apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S or whatever but the difference is the advantage now is that you have these ultra thin bezels top and bottom on the phone but you still have the fingerprint sensors right at the front where it used to be and where for a lot of people it should be if you have no bezels we have nowhere to put it so a lot of companies have to come up with compromises Samsung's solution was to put it on the back for way over here on the side which was terrible ergonomically apple solution was to just forego touch ID entirely on the iPhone 10 neither of which was really ideal there were many reports the Samsung an apple trying to integrate it into the display itself under the OLED panel and that's exactly what vivo has done here with the help of synaptics people is the first company to introduce this it's very likely that there be others following on for the rest of the year in 2018 and it's really impressive it's exactly it works exactly as the usual capacitive fingerprint sensor does but it's just integrated into the display and it feels a little bit magical because you're using display as you would on any other phone but when you lock the phone and you're trying to unlock it you put your finger on it and it authenticates you it does the usual biometric authentication its optical like the previous stuff now this only works with OLED panels because it's optical and there's a synaptics sensor down here the bottom which looks through the OLED dots this wouldn't work with an LCD because that requires a backlight which would block that recognition so you only be able to find this on smartphones with OLED displays coming up in the rest of this year the only difference relative to the usual fingerprint sensors is this one seems to be a little bit slower it isn't quite as lightening for us there's something like you would get on the previous iPhones or the one plus 5t and so on but it's tolerably slower it's not something that really slows you down even though it's not terribly well known globally Bebo is actually one of those biggest smartphone manufacturers owing to a lot of success in its native market of China this is this company is the first come out with this synaptics integrated fingerprint sensor solution but I'm confident that there'll be a whole bunch of others joining it as we go for the year 2018 the phone are we looking at here at CES is very close to the final product it has an aluminum unibody no fingerprint sensor in the back because obviously it's integrated into display itself and I'm liking the fact that it has a headphone jack so a thumbs up for that but I'm noticing Brenner's a headphone jack this is micro USB port which doesn't make much sense to me USB C is the standard of the future it's reversible it's better in almost every single way and this being vivos next flagship and having this brand new kind of futuristic technology it makes sense that people would give it the full top-spec treatment so this might not be the phone you end up buying but a fingerprint sensor integrated directly into this display but I'm confident of the technology itself once you try it is something that a whole bunch of people are going to want and like in part because it's so futuristic feeling you know it's a technology that used to be on a discreet separate piece of hardware now integrated directly into the display is seamless and it's kind of beautiful so for more technology like this follow us here at CES 2018 on the verge comm and youtube.com slash Virg