Tuesday, 4 July 2017

Bloomberg: iPhone 8's face-mapping and ProMotion display tech may be tasked to a 'Neural Engine' co-processor


Stacking on yesterday's iPhone 8 revelations by famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, comes a Bloomberg source who confirms that the phone might not sport the traditional Touch ID sensor at the front bottom indeed. Instead, Apple is toying around with the rumored 3D facial recognition for unlocking the phone and authorizing secure payments. The 3D-mapping is apparently done by a dedicated sensor/laser emitter combo at the top front of the device, but it would differ from the gimmicky iris scanning that Samsung offers on its newer phones, as there is a depth component, and it's not easy ...

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