- Hey, I'm Vlad with The Verge, here at CES 2018.
And the phone I have in front of me is
the first one to have a fingerprint censor
integrated into the display.
And it actually worked.
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So this is the first phone to have the fingerprint censor
integrated into the display.
So it's right in this area down here.
Which is available to use as you would with
any other smartphone display.
But when you lock the phone,
and you want to unlock it,
it turns into a fingerprint sensor.
It works exactly like the Capacity fingerprint censor
you might have seen on Apple iPhone
or Samsung Galaxy S-whatever.
But the difference and the advantage now is that
you have these ultra-thin bezels,
top and bottom on the phone
but you still have the fingerprint sensor
right at the front where it used to be.
And for a lot of people it should be.
If you have no bezels, you have no where to put it.
So, a lot of companies had to come up with compromises.
Samsung's solution was to put it on the back
but way over here on the side.
Which is terrible ergonomically.
Apple's solution was to just forego
Touch ID entirely on the iPhone X.
Neither of which was really ideal.
There were many reports that Samsung and Apple
were trying to integrate it into the display itself.
Under the OLED panel.
And that's exactly what Vivo has done here
with the help with Synaptics.
Vivo is the first company to introduce this.
It's very likely that there'll be others following on,
for the rest of the year in 2018.
And it's really impressive.
It's exactly, it works exactly as
the usual capacative fingerprint sensor does.
But it's just integrated into the display.
It feels a little bit magical because
you're using the display as you would on any other phone.
But when you lock the phone,
and you're trying to unlock it
you put your finger on it and it authenticates you.
It does the usual biometrical authentication.
It's optical, like the previous stuff.
Now, this only works with OLED panels because it's optical.
And there's a synaptics sensor down here at the bottom
which looks through the OLED dots.
This wouldn't work with an LCD
because that requires a backlight
which would block that recognition.
So, you will only be able to find this
on smartphones with OLED displays
coming up in the rest of this year.
The only difference relative to the usual
fingerprint sensors is this one
seems to be a little bit slower.
It isn't quite as lightning-fast as something like,
you would get on the previous iPhones or
the OnePlus 5t and so on.
But it's tolerably slow.
It's not something that really slows you down.
Even though it's not terribly well-known globally
Vivo is actually one of the world's
biggest smartphone manufacturer's.
Owing to a lot of success in it's native market of China.
This companies the first to come out with this
Synaptics integrated fingerprint sensor solution.
But I'm confident that there'll be a whole bunch of others
joining it as we go through the year 2018.
The phone that we're looking at here at CES
is very close to the final product.
It has an aluminum uni-body.
No fingerprint sensor on the back because obviously
it's intgrated into the display itself.
I'm liking the fact that it has a headphone jack.
So, thumbs up for that.
But I'm noticing right next to the headphone jack
is a micro USB port which doesn't make much sense to me.
USB-C is the standard of the future.
It's reversible.
It's better in almost every single way.
And this being Vivo's next flagship
and having this brand new, futuristic technology
it makes sense that Vivo would give it
the full top-spec treatment.
So, this might not be the phone you end up buying
with a fingerprint sensor integrated
directly into this display.
But I'm confident that the technology itself,
once you try it, is something that
a whole bunch of people are going to want and like.
In part because it's so futuristic feeling.
It's a technology that used to be
on a discreet, separate piece of hardware
now integrated directly into the display.
It's seamless, and it's kinda beautiful.
So, for more technology like this
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