According to this trend, it means that there will be no physical buttons on the front of the mobile phone, which means that the mobile phone will bid farewell to the era of fingerprint unlocking? In fact, many manufacturers have begun to plan to put the fingerprint unlocking function at the bottom of the screen, so that it will not occupy the space of the full screen. However, due to the limitation of current technology, many companies are forced to give up this technology temporarily, which means that the fingerprint unlocking function of the full-screen mobile phone we are seeing now is placed on the back of the mobile phone. Although this problem has been solved simply and rudely, it is not a long-term solution.
Some people may say that the Face ID of iPhone X is not the way. In fact, iPhone X is also limited by technology, so you can only use Face ID. The disadvantage is the ugly "bangs" on the iPhone X. For the Face ID mobile phone, it needs to leave a small place to install various scanning cameras, which violates the development of full-screen mobile phones. After all, no one wants abrupt black edges on a complete screen. If there is no black border, it seems not feasible to punch holes on a whole screen at will. Maybe these cameras that scan faces can be smaller in the future and hidden in the receiver.
Therefore, off-screen fingerprint unlocking will be the inevitable trend of future mobile phones. Earlier, Samsung, LG and HTC all reported that flagship machine with off-screen fingerprint unlocking would be launched in the first quarter of this year. Recently, Synaptics revealed that vivo will launch a full-screen smartphone with clear ID at the 2065 438+08 CES conference, which has attracted the attention of many domestic and foreign media. Why are manufacturers scrambling to launch mobile phones with fingerprints unlocked on the screen next year? The answer is simple. Whoever launches first will seize the market first. Although the stupid bird flies first, the early bird gets the worm. In the face of huge market interests, the launch now represents a considerable "cake".
Although Apple introduced the black technology of Face ID, it does not mean that Apple gave up this technology. A patent recently applied by Apple shows that Apple is also developing an off-screen fingerprint unlocking function. And the power of Apple is that Apple's off-screen unlocking function is not limited to one place, but can be unlocked with the whole screen. This idea is really convenient for users' hands and more humanized. Apple is likely to provide users with two ways to unlock in future products.
Although the fingerprint can be changed to unlock, it is still inseparable from this unlocking mode. Driven by the general direction, the future mobile phone is likely to be a glass body, completely transparent, so the fingerprint unlocking under the screen will definitely always exist. And compared with face recognition, fingerprints are relatively safer and more reassuring. At least you don't have to pay a huge order when your girlfriend suddenly calls you. There may be twins on the face, but fingerprints are unique.