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OK, smartphone designer: We want a fingerprint reader on this new phone. We don’t want it in a button\u00a0on the front or a pad on the back. We want something different.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n How about… under the screen?<\/em><\/p>\n This week LG Innotek unveiled a fingerprint reader that occupies a 0.03mm crevice cut into the bottom of the glass of a smartphone screen, freeing smartphone makers from choosing only between a button on the front or a pad on the back.<\/p>\n A buttonless reader has several advantages too, not least of which is a far simpler external design. That in turn makes waterproofing easier, and removes a moving part which could otherwise fail (see: the home buttons of all iPhones ever). It also could just look pretty cool,\u00a0a benefit which can’t be understated.<\/p>\n The new type of sensor doesn’t suffer for accuracy either; LG say that recognition rates of sub-glass fingerprint readers should be just as good as with button-type sensors.<\/p>\n A LG spokesperson told the\u00a0Korea Times<\/em> that the company is already in talks with multiple smartphone makers to commercialise\u00a0the sensors before the end of the year; Huawei, Google and Apple are obvious potential recipients here. We could also see the tech included in a late-year phone from LG themselves; potentially a successor to the LG V10? We’ll have to see.<\/p>\n What do you think of the new tech? Do sub-screen fingerprint readers make sense, or are buttons and pads the way to go? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n\n\n This week LG Innotek unveiled a fingerprint reader that occupies a 0.03mm crevice cut into the bottom of the glass of a smartphone screen, freeing smartphone makers from choosing only between a button on the front or a pad on the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":57185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[311,216],"tags":[8686,8687,175,8685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57186,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57184\/revisions\/57186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"