We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. The biometric hierarchy for unlocking your smartphone appears to be the following: Physical fingerprint reader ...

Hand and fingerprint readers cover 80 percent of biometric access control applications. They are complementary, as each meets specific needs in the market. When using these two technologies under a ...

Need to unlock your phone in the rain? Your next one might have a fingerprint sensor that can do just that. New sensors, which Qualcomm unveiled on Wednesday, have an ultrasonic scanner that can read ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. We now know that the Pixel 6 fingerprint reader is “enhanced” and thus slow, but if you are running into ...

In-screen fingerprint readers were the standard form of Android biometrics on 2019 flagships, and in 2020 we'll start seeing the second-generation versions of this technology. Qualcomm is hosting its ...

Fingerprint unlocking, with all its flaws and sensitivities, is an increasingly popular way to unlock your smartphone. That method is headed to your front door, too. Smart locks are beginning to ...

Qualcomm partners with BOE, one of the world's biggest display makers, to put its 3D Sonic Sensor onto the Chinese company's flexible OLED displays. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, ...

Every so often, emerging trends appear in the mobile industry and 2013 saw the birth of the fingerprint reader. No doubt spearheaded by Apple’s iPhone 5S, the technology also took off in South Korea, ...

It’s been a long time since you could point to a single item on a spec sheet and say that it distinguishes the latest smartphones from their predecessors. The must-have features in phones are usually ...

Biometric technologies may soon replace cumbersome passwords, but the U.S. National Institute of Technology is looking out to a time when you won’t even have to press your finger onto a grimy ...

Qualcomm is launching a new in-screen fingerprint sensor for smartphones, the "Qualcomm 3D Sonic Sensor Gen 2." Qualcomm says its ultrasonic fingerprint sensor "will be available in new sizes that are ...