iPhone 8's 3D Face Scanner Will Work In 'Millionths of a Second' (phonearena.com)

According to a report by the Korea Herald, Apple's upcoming iPhone 8 will ditch the fingerprint identification in favor of 3D face recognition, which will work "in the millionths of a second." PhoneArena reports: The Samsung Galaxy series were among the first mainstream devices to feature iris recognition, but the speed and accuracy of the current technology leave a lot to be desired, and maybe that is why current phones ship with an eye scanner AND a fingerprint reader. The iPhone 8, on the other hand, is expected to make a full dive into 3D scanning. Both Samsung and Apple are rumored to have tried to implement a fingerprint scanner under the display glass, but failed as the technology was not sufficiently advanced. The new iPhone will also introduce 3D sensors on both its front and back for Apple's new augmented reality (AR) platform. This latest report also reveals that Apple will not use curved edges for its iPhone 8 screen, but will instead use a flat AMOLED panel. The big benefit of using AMOLED for Apple thus is not the curve, but its thinner profile compared to an LCD screen.

Comments

no thanks

[bobmajdakjr]

now police wont even have to physical force you to unlock the phone they can just point it at you gg apple

Re:no thanks

[BarbaraHudson]

Courts have ruled that police can compel you to touch the fingerprint scanner, because that's not "testifying against yourself", whereas they can't compel you to give them the passcode.

Which doesn't make sense, because in both cases you're giving evidence against yourself, but, as Charles Dickens wrote in Oliver Twist:

"The law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."

"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass - a idiot"

Who'd have thought that Mr. Bumble was a feminist? :-)

So the cops can point it at your face and unlock?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not enabling that in a million years. Oh, and beyond the cops, some thug you shoots you dead can point it at your corpse and unlock too? Yeah, fuck that.

EARTH TO APPLE

[Anonymous Coward]

Release a version with a battery you can easily replace!

Injury? Accident? Assault?

[kenwd0elq]

So, if I'm in an auto accident, or I trip and fall face-first into the sidewalk, or if I'm assaulted and have a broken nose, a black eye and blood on my face, will the "facial recognition" still unlock my phone and let me call the cops?

Facial recognition for anything really urgent sounds like a REALLY bad idea.

Re:Injury? Accident? Assault?

[exomondo]

So, if I'm in an auto accident, or I trip and fall face-first into the sidewalk, or if I'm assaulted and have a broken nose, a black eye and blood on my face, will the "facial recognition" still unlock my phone and let me call the cops?

Facial recognition for anything really urgent sounds like a REALLY bad idea.

Yes and people invented such scenarios to decry the use of fingerprint scanners to unlock your device. The idiots of the world still seem oblivious to the reality that if you can't use the fingerprint scanner for whatever reason then you type in your passcode instead, likewise if you can't use the facial recognition or don't want to use it then you type in your passcode instead.

Quick disable hot key

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

If thieves or border police is forcing you to unlock the phone, there is a quick way to disable the face recognize and unlock feature.

Just swipe on the screen quickly S-O-S 3 times and press the power , power+volume-up, power+volume-down three times, make a frownie face, shake your head left to right three times, (customizable to up-down motion in India). The phone will go into secure unlock model

You have one millionth of a second to do all this.

Re:They keep saying that

[Anonymous Coward]

what earthly use is two cameras in the same direction?

3D scanning and AR, like they said in the summary above, duh. Have you like not heard of Kinect? 3DS? Playstation Camera? Do you not have two eyes?

Re:BS speed

[Plumpaquatsch]

Billions of instructions per second. Face recognition in millionths of a second. So they're going to accurately recognize a face running only a few thousand CPU instructions? Baloney.

Would "they don't use the CPU" be too obvious an answer?