This new scanning feature may be Samsung's answer to iPhone X's FaceID

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Samsung's Iris Scanner is 1 of the generality safe methods of protecting your device from unwanted access. For 2018, Samsung appears to be stepping up with a new "Intelligent Scan" feature which can come with their upcoming Galaxy S9/S9+. Labeled as smart Scan, it combines both facial and iris scanning to get best accuracy and security. As a comparison, the current Iris scanner found on the Galaxy Note FE, Galaxy S8/S8+ and Note8 are recommended for indoor Utilize as pictured below. You can mark out the animation of how smart Scan works below:[ SOURCE, VIA ]

Apple might launch a new inexpensive iPhone this year — and it feels like the iPhone 5C fiasco all over again

Apple is working on a lower-cost iPhone with some of the iPhone X's better features for a launch later this year, according to the KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The lower-cost iPhone can have the same facial-recognition sensor as the iPhone X, as well as an edge-to-edge 6.1-inch LCD monitor and no house button. The low-cost device is not the only new iPhone that KGI Securities predicts Apple going to launch. In 2013, Apple introduced a lower-cost iPhone, called the iPhone 5C, instead of selling the Former year's model at a discounted price. The study found that the new lower-cost iPhone can help Apple earn market share in China, that was too the goal of the iPhone 5C.

The Galaxy S9 might have an answer for the iPhone X's Face ID

referring to After seeing the premier Galaxy S9 press renders leaked late final week, a new report detects that the Samsung has found a way to fight the iPhone X's signature feature, Face ID. The Galaxy S9 phones won't come with front-facing 3D-sensing cameras that make face scanning possible — that is the trick to Face ID's security. Because the iPhone X's TrueDepth cam is enable to of read the three-dimensional chart of a user's face, Face ID can't be fooled with photos, like the Galaxy S8 and Note 8, for example. Instead, the firm going to do something else with the sensors that are endeed obtainable on the Galaxy S and Note phones. The feature was disclosed in an unreleased Android Oreo build for the Galaxy Note 8.