Various ones have appeared on the Internet for a long time informace about having Galaxy S8 fingerprint reader built directly into the body of the display. However, the official presentation of the "ace of eight" swept all these speculations off the table, the phones have no integrated reader in the display, instead Samsung placed it on the back right next to the camera.
The South Korean giant collaborated on the technology with Synaptics, which is the main manufacturer of various touch devices (touchpads). Samsung invested a large amount of money in the development, unfortunately the functionality was not ideal even though there were a number of prototypes, the managers therefore decided to place the reader "classically" on the back of the phone.
"Samsung invested in the development of this technology from Synaptics last year, but the results were rather disappointing," comes from an anonymous source on The Investor server. "With mass production approaching, Samsung decided to place the reader on the back of the phone, literally at the last minute".
Although the new technology in this year's flagship models Galaxy It didn't get the S8, Samsung continues to work intensively with Synaptics on development, and it's likely that we'll be able to meet it, for example, in Galaxy Footnote8.
Source: PocketNow
