The In-Display Fingerprint Test - Good or Garbage?

My recent article the apex phones I saw so much promise in that particular device and also the response from you guys was substantial, I decided to keep the train rolling down the tracks sort of that apex phone obviously a concept, but it had some features and functions that will eventually trickle down into the marketplace in different ways probably sooner than you might think.

Now in front of me it's not an apex this is a thing that you can buy right now and the one feature it carries from the apex which is interesting to me is this in display fingerprint scanner what we have? dual pixel sensors, six gigs ram, 128 gigs of storage also you will see that vivo is sponsoring the World Cup this year and I've got a little bit of info a little bit of Intel there they may be launching something close to that apex device at that moment in time who knows for now it's the X21 and I want to see if this end display fingerprint scanner is the real deal.

This is a whole new opportunity for manufacturers some type of scent when you open a box I just gave you a free one, well who saw more boxes they make you point it back at me okay in case you can't see it world cup baby a headset which looks a little better than average I actually look at that it's an in-ear style clear case here with a rubber edge to it that's one of the better three cases that I've ever seen.

The x21 dual camera layout up here power switch volume rocker above that SIM tray is on the bottom of the device along with the USB port and speaker let's try to boot this up so the first thing I'm noticing here is the display quality it is AMOLED it's only 2k I would rather have a high quality display then focus exclusively on resolution above 2k, there you can get a sense for the screen to body ratio so the back camera unit is two separate cameras one of them is 12 megapixels the other 5f 1.8 and F 2.4 and then on the front it's a 12 megapixel selfie camera at F 2.0 it's kind of a mid-range device with the Snapdragon 600 series chip inside of it and there's not any particular feature here maybe besides the display which I will consider to be outstanding except for this feature that really compelled me to look at this device this retail version of the in display fingerprint so that's what we're going to evaluate in this post.

Register a fingerprint let's go now it also gives you an option here to choose the animation style for fingerprint unlock there's three different options here for an animation I think it's kind of cool so you can see when the screen is off you have this dimly lit section where your thumb should go but it's very dim that's quicker than it was on the apex of course on the apex phone it was implemented a bit differently the size of the region that could scan your fingerprint was larger the eventual tech were hoping for is like the full display or half the display so you don't even have to think about where you're tapping it but this implementation here I would say gets the job done maybe better than I expected the tech behind-the-scenes that's working through the display to read your fingerprint is not the same security level as what you would get out of a capacitive reader on the back of the phone or below on the chin region you might be giving up a little bit in terms of security, but I think there's something compelling about that trade-off also if you tap the wake button then you can really see where the location is.

Is it a complete substitute considering the fact that you're giving up a little bit of security I don't think so and the reason I'll say that is because the rear scanner doesn't really bother me that much this is the one plus 6 I mean they've implemented it they're in such a fashion that's not particularly offensive to me and it's quick, vivos going after it and the implementation here is beyond my expectation so that says something on its own and in fact I can't wait to see their next version of this for something so new age and high-tech seeming plus you get the real cool anime look at that I mean you feel kind of high-tech so I appreciate ambition in this space and this is another example of it and as that pad gets larger the practicality is going to go up even further if we can get a full screen or even a half screen version of that like had sort of been pitched on the apex now we're talking.