Apple is apparently working on facial recognition for their iPhone 8 and now according to a recent report, the Samsung Galaxy S8 may come with facial recognition.
The news comes in a report from The Investor who have received details about this new feature from a Samsung official, you can see what they had to say below.
“Due to some limits of iris scanning such as speed and accuracy, we have decided to add facial recognition to the Galaxy S8,” a Samsung official was quoted as saying. “With a face scanner, it will take less than 0.01 seconds to unlock the phone.”
The Galaxy S8 is rumored to come with a 5.8 inch display and the S8 Plus a 6.2 inch display, the handsets will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor and will come with 4GB of RAM.
Other specifications in the handsets include 64GB of storage and a microSD card slot for expansion, the devices will also come with dual 12 megapixel cameras.
The Samsung Galaxy S8 will be made official at a Samsung Unpacked press event on the 29th of March and the handsets are expected to go on sale in April.
Previous rumors have suggested that Samsung will start taking pre-orders on the new S8 handsets on the 10th of April and they will launch on the 21st of April.
Source The Investor
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