TL;DR: Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone will feature a side-mounted Touch ID button instead of an under-display fingerprint sensor, aligning with Samsung's foldable design to reduce complexity and ...

Are you frustrated that your fingerprint works to log into Windows 11/10, but gets rejected by the UAC when trying to install an app or make any changes? If so, we understand how bothersome it can be, ...

The Android 15 update is causing some Fairphone 5 phones to become bricked, but only if the fingerprint sensor is broken. A Fairphone rep confirmed stricter hardware checks in Android 15 are to blame.

Fingerprint sensors have been around for quite some time, and they’ve become a standard feature in most smartphones. Apple introduced Touch ID on the iPhone 5s in 2013. Since then, it has appeared on ...

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Huawei is exploring the idea of a fingerprint sensor built into a smartwatch display, with the innovation designed to streamline the UI, perform gestures, and increase security. In the granted patent ...

A new option coming to Pixel phones in Android 16 is the ability to use the fingerprint sensor when the screen is turned off. In Android 16 DP2, Google is adding an option for “Screen-off fingerprint ...

The Onyx BOOX Palma 2 is an eBook reader that looks like a smartphones. It has a 6.13 inch, 824 x 1648 pixel capacitive touch display with 300 pixels per inch. First up, the first-gen BOOX Palma ...

I recently had to build an infrared close proximity sensor that could tell if something was dropped in a parcel delivery drop box. After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece ...

The Pixel 9 series may fix a significant drawback of Google smartphones. The next-gen Pixels will reportedly feature an ultrasonic under-display fingerprint sensor, letting go of the suboptimal ...

Following user frustrations with the under-display fingerprint sensor introduced on the Pixel 6, Google appears to be making a change with the Pixel 9 series. According to a report by Android ...

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