After years of rumors and prototypes, an in-display fingerprint scanner is finally shipping in a major phone from a major company. The international Vivo X21 marks the first time this technology has ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Last week’s poll gave us lots of interesting numbers where on a phone you like having the fingerprint scanner. What surprised us the most was how passionate the fans of having a fingerprint scanner on ...

The advanced ultrasonic fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus can be fooled by a simple film screen protector — and the company says it will push out a software update to fix the issue as ...

Qualcomm took a different approach from the rest of the smartphone industry last year when it announced its 3D Sonic in-display fingerprint sensor. Instead of relying on an optical image of your ...

Because this is pretty cutting-edge tech for a smartphone, the ultrasonic sensor doesn’t always work as quickly as you would like when you want to unlock the Galaxy S10 or S10 Plus. However, there are ...

The upcoming OnePlus 6T will feature an in-display fingerprint reader, the company confirmed to CNET. This will make it not only the first OnePlus phone with the technology, but also the first phone ...

DigitalPersona plans to announce on Tuesday a fingerprint scanner for laptops and handhelds that doubles as a jog dial. The desktop security company plans to sell the scanner, named the U-are-U ...

Samsung‘s upcoming Galaxy S23 series flagships may bring an important but less talked about improvement. Rumors are that the Ultra model will include a larger and faster ultrasonic under-display ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The funny thing is, with the exception of Samsung’s S10, all those devices mentioned use the same optical fingerprint sensor built ...

If there’s one thing Google has been consistent with every Pixel phone, it would be issues with the fingerprint scanner. The company’s latest Pixel March update is causing fingerprint headaches for ...

Ask Pixel 6 owners about their top gripe and they'll likely point to the slow, finicky fingerprint sensor. There may be an explanation for that momentary anguish, though. Google is telling users that ...