Practical work with digital fingerprint technology on the screen of the new OnePlus 6T

Prior to the release of the iPhone X, rumors were hinting that Apple would remove the Home button by setting up Touch ID under the device's screen, while preserving the sensor's 39 fingerprint while allowing end-to-end display.

It did not end up happening and Apple finally replaced Touch ID with Face ID, but since then, other companies have implemented an integrated fingerprint recognition technology.

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OnePlus recently unveiled its new OnePlus 6T, one of the very first smartphones available on the US market using on-screen fingerprint recognition technology. We were able to get hold of one of the new smartphones to see if Apple was lacking anything with its face ID implementation.

There are cases where a fingerprint sensor offers advantages over facial recognition. The facial identity, for example, does not work well when you are in bed and that the phone is held in a landscape or when an iPhone is flat on a desk. With a fingerprint sensor, these are not problems.

However, fingerprint sensors have their own problems, and as we discovered with the OnePlus 6T, screen-based fingerprinting is not as good as it looks. The implementation of OnePlus is slow and inaccurate, which is a major disadvantage compared to Face ID.

With the OnePlus 6T, you must make sure to place your finger in the designated place on the display for your fingerprint to be recognized. Sometimes you have to keep it there for what seems like a long time before you can read the fingerprint. Touch ID and Face ID unlock almost instantly: waiting with the OnePlus 6T makes all the difference.

If Apple had opted for integrated fingerprint technology, its implementation would have been better than that offered by OnePlus, and it is still possible that the technology used by OnePlus will improve with software updates. or future iterations, but we'll never know if Apple would have it. do better.

Apple is quite in front of Face ID, which is now both in iPhones and modern iPads, and the company said that other solutions, such as the screen or the only one of them. screen facing the back Touch ID, have never been under study once she decided to embark on facial identity.

Apple's Face ID technology is still so advanced that no other company, including OnePlus, has yet managed to match it. And display technology still has a long way to go, it seems, most of Apple's big competitors opting for rear-facing fingerprint sensors as a way to get end displays at the end.

You're missing Touch ID and I hope that Apple would have worked in favor of an integrated fingerprint sensor on the screen or do you prefer face identification? Let us know in the comments.