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

Posted by BeauHD on from the don't-blink dept.

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.

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  1. no thanks by bobmajdakjr · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    1. Re:no thanks by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

      Wait for the next iOS release feature: Sticking your tongue out while trying to unlock the phone wipes all facial recognition data.

    2. Re:no thanks by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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? :-)

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  2. Glasses by vlad30 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Lets see I have reading glasses, long distance , Various sunglasses and protective glasses. I wonder how it will go with all those possibilities ?

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  3. Re:Samsung fan here, or maybe ex fan... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    And thank goodness the AMOLED screen means the device can get thinner - if there's one thing we need, it's a thinner phone.

    I can't tell you how many times I've had my iPhone 6S in my pocket and thought "wow, this phone is just SO heavy and SO thick, I really hope I can drop $1200 on something thinner soon".

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  4. They keep saying that by Kohath · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But it's hard to believe. Apple sold ApplePay to banks and card companies based on the security of their fingerprint scanner. Fingerprints have a hundred year history of being a means of unique biological identification. Facial recognition has a few years of history marked by some successes and some embarrassing failures.

    Are banks and card companies just going to automatically OK a change like that? It's hard to believe.

    Easier to believe they got the in-screen fingerprint scanner to work. Synaptics keeps claiming they have that technology and it works.

  5. Re:Can't scan my face.. by scdeimos · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've been wondering what to do with all those write protect labels I've got for my 5 1/4" disks.

  6. 1,337,000... by AdamStarks · · Score: 3, Informative

    millionths of a second, to be precise.

  7. Re:Injury? Accident? Assault? by exomondo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  8. Re:Why a face photo to unlock ? by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    No. It has no macro lens.

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  9. Re:Injury? Accident? Assault? by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Informative

    Erh... I don't know about the US, but phones in Europe MUST allow calling emergency services even when locked. In other words, if you find a phone, dialing the local equivalent of 911 must be possible, provided that thing has battery. No matter whether it's locked, or in what way it is locked.

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  10. It's 2017! by Mal-2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This time you won't be holding it wrong, you'll be looking at it funny...

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  11. Re:BS speed by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

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