It seems the Samsung may have unnerved away years of
advancement and belief that it gained from its biometric security technologies
for the sake of reducing bezels. Although it was never as perfect and secure as
Apple’s Face ID, Samsung’s mixture of facial and iris recognition was, until
the Galaxy S10, at least dependable. Now that’s gone and even Samsung’s
ultrasonic fingerprint scanner is proving to be less functional than the
company has made it sound.
In-screen fingerprint sensors aren’t precisely latest but
while other OEMs like Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, and the like are previously trying
to ideal the more traditional optical fingerprint scanner, Samsung started from
square one by adopting Qualcomm’s ultrasonic fingerprint scanner technology.
While it may have benefits over optical sensors, users are finding that the
drawbacks effortlessly outweigh those.
Users are reporting on how defective the technology is,
despite the advertisement that it should actually be more consistent. While
ultrasonic technology should see, or hear rather, through oil, dirt, and even
scratches, it ironically fails in dry environments, dry fingertips, or
fingertips with scratches. Complaints online recount how the sensor would fail numerous
times, especially when making transactions.
That wouldn’t be bad if it weren’t the only safe biometric
authentication existing on the phone. The only other option would be to key in
a PIN or passcode. In the light of fingerprint and face recognition, that’s roughly
like going back to the dark ages.
Samsung is promising that all it will require are software
updates to perk up performance, updates that couldn’t come sooner. But while
those will hopefully address that specific problem, all in all, the GalaxyS10’s security features might not be the most excellent things about it.
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