Of innovations, Xiaomi offers galore. Today we talk about unlocking the smartphone by fingerprint. A few weeks ago we saw that the Chinese company aims to propose it unlocking the mobile device by fingerprinting on the whole screen. A really interesting solution that could speed up the startup of our device even more. Today, however, through Chinese sources, we have learned that the technology giant is thinking of another method for it unlock via fingerprint. No longer lateral or on the screen, but on shell. That's how.
Xiaomi has patented a way to unlock the smartphone by fingerprint but not on the screen, but on the side body
According to what we learn from Chinese industry sources, Xiaomi's latest idea about unlocking the smartphone by fingerprint is coming to version 2.0. As anticipated, the patent we are talking about shows a method to unlock the device “Inserting” the imprint on the body. But you will say: then it is a side release via a button, like the one we have seen on Redmi smartphones for a couple of years now. No, this is not the case since this new method it does not imply the presence of a physical sensor or key.
As we can see from the image, the unlocking of the smartphone with Xiaomi fingerprint in version 2.0 is expected laterally. No keys and no dedicated slots, therefore, only one built-in player which is able to read the footprint despite the presence of the body. Clearly what we see is only a draft of the patent, or rather an extract. We do not know when, how and SE Xiaomi will integrate this technology. It is easy to think that this will involve a cost exorbitant to the user, but it's never too late to hope.
Tell us yours: do you think this type of release is useful? Or we can to do without how many other features?
Totally unmotivated, unlocking via the fingerprint reader on the power button does the exact same thing, it already exists and is more than practical, in my opinion even more than the one under the screen. The only advantage could be to have a larger surface, for which it would be enough to expand the key a little, but "normal" fingerprint readers like those that were previously on the back already did it years ago 😅