Sunday, November 10, 2019

Weekly poll results: in-display fingerprint readers are preferable to face recognition

Three quarters of voters in last week's poll prefer an in-display fingerprint reader over a face recognition system. There were discussions of security and practicality, but hardware limitations also played a role - face scanning equals a large notch or a chunky top bezel. Of course, many people were saying "why not both?", but makers tend to go with one or the other - e.g. when Apple introduced Face ID, it dropped Touch ID, Google followed a very similar path. Huawei did offer both with the Mate 20 Pro, but that didn't last. The Huawei P30 Pro dropped the 3D face scanner on the front...