Weekly poll results: fingerprint readers below the screen is what you want in 2018

14 January 2018
It was by far the most popular option in our poll, leaving triple cameras and OLED displays in the dust.

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  • Anonymous
  • DSB
  • 14 Jan 2018

Someone let the editor know its supposed to read "beneath" then screen, since below the screen is where phones like the iPhone 8 have their readers.

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    • Gintaras
    • 0xW
    • 14 Jan 2018

    The best place of fingerprint is:
    https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_xa1_plus-pictures-8840.php#image8

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      • AnonD-664474
      • Kg%
      • 14 Jan 2018

      And what good are those when the phone itself is fragile AF?
      Latest discovery by Japanese Researchers, the self-healing glass, should be improved and implemented ASAP.
      https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/18/smashed-cracked-phone-screen-self-healing-glass-university-of-tokyo

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        • r33fd
        • LaF
        • 14 Jan 2018

        What I really want to see is a stop to this price going up madness and more products that are made to last , not planned obsolete .

        Phones have not become 1.5-2 times more capable than they were 2-3 years ago . There is no legit reason for prices to go so high other than manufacturers get greedier and greedier . Also there is no good reason for OEMs to stop support for perfectly capable phones just because they want to sell new ones .

        At some point the customers got to say : "Enough is Enough !" and stop buying these overpriced planed obsolete piece of tech that OEMs try to stick down our throats every year and encourage cheaper alternatives like xiaomi/oneplus/honor etc . If the big guys (samsung,apple) would see a major decrease in their sales they would have to change something but they go all out anti customer because people still buy their products .

        If a pc/laptop can get great components at reasonable prices and easily last for 5 or more years then so should a phone .

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          • AlienFromNextDoor
          • JK1
          • 14 Jan 2018

          Biometrics and even pins nd passwords are useless. I don't take my phone out of my pocket unless I need to and I don't leavr it lying around on tables. I'm also not a CIA agent so I've got no secrets to keep.

          I find it both hilarious and pathetic when I see 20 or 30 year old real life Joes using biometrics.

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            • Luxor
            • ibb
            • 14 Jan 2018

            "It is worth pointing out that the Synaptics-supplied tech..."

            I'm glad they pointed it out. Many people keep saying other manufacturer will 'copy' Vivo. It is not copying. This is supply by Synaptics. Just like all the rest of the normal fingerprint sensors we have in most smartphone today.

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              • Anonymous
              • LQt
              • 14 Jan 2018

              http://www.slashleaks.com/l/htc-u12-rendered-by-case-maker

              Front button like mate 10

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                • Anonymous
                • LQt
                • 14 Jan 2018

                Anonymous, 14 Jan 2018So what "you all" want in 2018 is VIVO right?. Don't think ... moreBefore S7 the IP68 was considered overrated.
                Before i7, stereo was consider overrated
                Before i7+, dual cam from.htc was gimmick

                Before i8, AR was useless
                Before i7+, background defocus was useless

                That what we see ppl type as comments on many tech sites

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                  • Anonymous
                  • tDR
                  • 14 Jan 2018

                  where is long live battery?

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                    • AnonD-669148
                    • 38G
                    • 14 Jan 2018

                    I like to see the return of the 3.5 mm headphone jack, and FM Radio!

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                      • Anonymous
                      • xja
                      • 14 Jan 2018

                      So what "you all" want in 2018 is VIVO right?. Don't think so!
                      Sammy and Sony Fanboys was voting this option thinking it will be featured in their flagship overpriced devices. But now that it was first done on vivo, they are going to say something like ; "it is overrated and less practical than normal FPS" or "it doesn't matter who did it first but who will do it best"
                      Its funny though that Real-world problems like lack of 3.5mm jack, sealed batteries/batteries lasting less than 2 years, small batteries, 16:9 display, lack of long-term update etc were lacking in the pool. So we've come to accept obselence for heavily priced devices

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                        • mathew7
                        • 0Ue
                        • 14 Jan 2018

                        But what about fingerprint reader on the side? Like my Z5C. I really like the setup because I have the phone firmly in grip (with finger over power+fingerprint button) when getting out of the pocket. One-handed usage is excellent.

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                          • nkdd
                          • 6XT
                          • 14 Jan 2018

                          Ah, well. The market is cooked, no word on longer battery longetivity.