CNBC:
Apple may replace its fingerprint scanner with a face scanner on the next iPhone, according to JPMorgan analyst Rod Hall.
A front-facing 3-D scanner could replace the home button, which could be phased out if Apple goes with a full-glass front this year, Hall wrote in a research note this week. Biometric facial scanning would be more secure for Apple Pay and could work better in “wet conditions” if the iPhones are more water resistant, JPMorgan wrote.
Don’t have a link to the original research note. If anyone has it, please tweet it at me, I’d like to read the original text. And I’ll add it here as an update.
UPDATE: Johannes Schaller points out that the Surface Pro 4 ships with Windows Hello, which is designed to read fingerprints but can also work with certain camera configurations to do facial recognition. So there’s the consumer starting point.
At port of entry US Customs will have it much easier. No asking password. Just point to face. Unlock phone.
I doubt this will be a feature
In all fairness, Android introduced facial unlocking in 2012. The early phones that implemented Face Unlock (e.g. HTC) got a lot of mocking because you could reportedly beat the system with a photograph. Google now offers an API for facial recognition as part of Cloud Vision.
They could already force you to finger unlock so a similar situation already exists. These conveniences are only to stop thieves, not authorities, from getting your data.
I generally don’t count it as “Android” introduced the feature in such cases, as much as “HTC” introduced the feature. Not until it get’s rolled into AOSP at least.
You’re quite right. Thanks for the clarification.
So does that mean Asus and others did their own implementation of Face Unlock?
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On my phone if it doesn’t work at any angle or in the dark it is a non starter for me.