A few months ago Apple presented the iPhone X in society, a very advanced smartphone, at least technologically speaking, which, in addition to many challenges for the engineers of the North American company of the bitten apple, involved the presentation of different and innovative technologies in the that the company has been working with for years, with which, apparently, it was intended revolutionize the world of mobile telephony again.
Among a good assortment of novelties, one of the most talked about has been the possibility of unlocking the terminal just by placing it in front of our face, a technology that Apple baptized as Face ID and that it seemed he was going to dethrone the unlocking by fingerprint, or at least that is what we all believed since today Synaptics surprises us with what they themselves have baptized as Clear ID, a revolutionary fingerprint reader that can be placed under the screen of a terminal and that could be the perfect solution to continue using this technology.
Many were the people who ventured to include a fingerprint reader of this type under the screen of the iPhone X
As you are surely thinking, despite the fact that Apple has opted for another way to facilitate the unlocking of our device since many other rival companies will already be working on different platforms capable of simulating the operation of Face ID, the truth is that, at the time , many rumors were commented quite vigorously about the possibilities that this technology could have to be implemented in the terminal that we know today as iPhone X, such is the case that there were even many gurus and analysts who ventured to comment that Apple itself would launch a terminal with the fingerprint reader located under its screen.
Unfortunately and according to rumors, all the companies that, apparently, were developing this type of fingerprint sensors have finally not opted for the implementation of this kind of technology in their products that have just been announced or have been directly launched a long time ago. Little time. This is so literally due to the fact that the technology necessary for its proper functioning, at that time, I was not prepared enough. Something that seems to have suddenly changed after the official announcement you just made Synaptics in this regard, in which they assure us that their new optical sensor it is already being mass-produced.
Synaptics ensures that its new optical sensor is already manufactured in a volume high enough to satisfy any interested manufacturer.
According to the press release published by the press department of Synaptics itself, it seems that this new sensor has many more advantages than we can assume at first. Among the most interesting and according to the engineers responsible for its development, Clear ID is much faster than many other biometric solutions available on the market today, including Face ID itself. Another point in favor of this new technology is that, always taking into account the comments made by those responsible for the company itself, its platform makes use of the so-called SentryPoint Security Suite, a very specialized security software that would be in charge of prevent any hacker from reverse engineering biometric data while making use of 256-bit encryption to protect data.
As has been publicized, this sensor can be more than interesting for all those mobile manufacturers who seek to design and manufacture a terminal whose screen extends to the edges, something that is very fashionable lately and that thanks to Clear ID would allow them place the fingerprint sensor just under the screen itself, instead of trying and looking for locations that can be quite curious or imaginative in many cases and, truly, we are not lacking in examples.
Further information: Synaptics