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[Poll Results!] What’s your preferred screen lock feature on the Galaxy S8?

It has almost been a month since Samsung released the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. Many of you got the new flagship on April 21, the day it was released, and would by now have settled into a routine with your new device. Since the Galaxy S8 offers more screen lock security features than any […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 years ago

Galaxy S8 fingerprint scanner might be placed on the back

There have been countless rumors so far suggesting that the Galaxy S8 is going to be the first smartphone to feature optical fingerprint recognition. This means that the display would incorporate fingerprint scanning technology. One of Samsung's suppliers recently launched a component that makes that happen and it's believed that Samsung might source it for […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 years ago

Samsung trademarks Galaxy Iris and Galaxy Eyeprint in Korea and the US

Fingerprint sensors are becoming all the rage these days, with nearly all well-known smartphone manufacturers implementing the feature into their high-end handsets, but iris scanning technology has been something of a whisper. Samsung has been considering the possibility of implementing iris scanners since at least the Galaxy S5, but the company's first explicit jump into the future […]

By Deidre R.
9 years ago

Samsung launches Galaxy Tab Iris with iris recognition technology for government and businesses in India

We've long heard that Samsung is going to release consumer devices with iris recognition technology and we very well might see that happen with the Galaxy Note 6 later this year. Before it rolls out iris recognition technology in a flagship handset, Samsung appears to have decided to showcase it in a product with limited scale. […]

By Adnan Farooqui
9 years ago

Samsung patent substitutes fingers for eyes, implements eye-tracking movements

We’ve uncovered the Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 that Samsung may reveal later this year, and we noted a week ago that the company intends to bring iris-on-the-move (IoM) technology to the new device. Stanford Research Institute (SRI) referred to the tablet as “this new model,” leading us to believe that the tablet will be announced […]

By Deidre R.
10 years ago

Samsung may bring Biosignal ID to the Gear smartwatch family, patent suggests

Samsung has said time and time again that the company wants to create a perfect smartwatch, and the round Orbis smartwatch patent we’ve seen suggests the same. Lately, the Korean manufacturer has been aiming to bring security and functionality to its devices, with Knox 2.0 for its Galaxy smartphones. Just last week, we were the […]

By Deidre R.
10 years ago

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