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01-11-2018, 07:00 AM
Unlike Apple, this phone maker put a fingerprint sensor under a touchscreen
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With the move to edge-to-edge screens and narrower bezels, there's just no room to put a fingerprint sensor on the front of a phone anymore. Phone makers have moved their fingerprint sensors to the side or back, or removed them entirely.*
But things don't have to be this way. At CES 2018 (http://mashable.com/category/ces-2018/), Chinese phone maker Vivo showed off the world's first phone with a fingerprint sensor embedded underneath the touchscreen.
SEE ALSO: The best tech of CES 2018 (http://mashable.com/2018/01/09/best-tech-ces-2018/)
Vivo's been working on putting a fingerprint sensor underneath the screen for the last couple of years, and now it's finally made one that's ready for production. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/10/vivo-under-display-fingerprint-sensor-phone-hands-on/)
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With the move to edge-to-edge screens and narrower bezels, there's just no room to put a fingerprint sensor on the front of a phone anymore. Phone makers have moved their fingerprint sensors to the side or back, or removed them entirely.*
But things don't have to be this way. At CES 2018 (http://mashable.com/category/ces-2018/), Chinese phone maker Vivo showed off the world's first phone with a fingerprint sensor embedded underneath the touchscreen.
SEE ALSO: The best tech of CES 2018 (http://mashable.com/2018/01/09/best-tech-ces-2018/)
Vivo's been working on putting a fingerprint sensor underneath the screen for the last couple of years, and now it's finally made one that's ready for production. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/10/vivo-under-display-fingerprint-sensor-phone-hands-on/)
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