If you’ve kept up to date with upcoming smartphone launches, you would notice how many of the high end devices were recently confirmed to launch with ultrasonic fingerprint scanners. But what makes it ...

A hardware sensor that can quickly read a person's unique pattern of ridges on their fingertip, to verify that person's identity. This is a type of biometric security. It can be used in place of a ...

Google’s latest Android update is causing problems for the fingerprint reader on some Pixel phones. The bug is extremely rare, but on affected handsets the fingerprint scanner stops working altogether ...

The fingerprint sensor is brand new on this smartphone. In a test, it was faster than iPhone 6! The system needs only 2.2 seconds to unlock the phone. If we add great and high-quality design, we can ...

Biometric authentication has become a core part of modern identity verification. From digital onboarding and access control ...

The Google Pixel 9 series has finally launched, and it brings a host of new features, especially in terms of Pixel AI capabilities. However, the Pixel 9 series phones don't boot with Android 15 out of ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

When the Pixel 8 was first announced, it was the most excited I’d been about a Google phone in quite some time. After a brief defection to the dark side (i.e., the iPhone 13), I was more than ready to ...

The folks over at MySmartPrice first spotted the patent, which has a few interesting details that you may have never heard of before. Firstly, the patent suggests that the entire display of the ...