Already at Galaxy With the S8, Samsung was expected to wipe out the competition and manage to fit a fingerprint reader under the display. Unfortunately, we soon learned that South Korean engineers have not yet managed to get this revolutionary piece to a stage where it can be used in a flagship phone for millions of people. So it was hoped and speculated that the upcoming Note 8 will boast an integrated fingerprint sensor in the display. But according to new reports, it looks like the technology is still not ready.
The company came up with the news Naver, which also stated that similar problems with the integration of the reader under the display are also currently being experienced by Apple, which wants to offer the technology in its model this year. However, Samsung let it be known that it is still continuing in its attempts to create a sensor in the display, but it is limited by technical limits that are closely related to the security of the sensor. The South Koreans seem to be working on the sensor with CrucialTec, which makes optical trackpads and fingerprint readers.
In addition, the oval sensor that Samsung used in the Galaxy The S8 isn't as accurate as the circular sensor on competing smartphones like the Google Pixel, LG G6, iPhone 7 or even the cheap Xiaomi Redmi 4. For this reason, it is expected that if the Galaxy The Note 8 will not boast a reader in the display, so it will once again sit on the back, but it could be circular in shape, which we were also told by yesterday's leak renderings.
