The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will get official later on in 2018, following the launch and release of the Galaxy S9. And that can only mean one thing: rumours – lots and lots of rumours about the phone.
Word on the street, and also reports from 12 months ago, claim Samsung will have a working in-display fingerprint scanner ready for use inside the Galaxy Note 9.
Apple famously failed to achieve this with the iPhone X, after multiple reports claimed the company tried and failed to get the technology working in time for the iPhone X’s release.
In-screen fingerprint scanners will happen in 2018. Vivo recently confirmed that it has the technology working in cahoots with Synaptics. Samsung, however, will be the focal point of the new technology, as its Galaxy Note 9 will secure the majority of the headlines.
This technology WILL NOT appear on the Galaxy S9, however, and this gives Samsung at least one area where the Galaxy Note 9 will be differentiated. The main thing for Samsung will be that it has one-upped Apple’s iPhone X, though, by successfully integrating a fingerprint scanner in the display.
Is this a big deal? For me, not really. I couldn’t care less. It just seems like an arbitrary measurement of one-upmanship, which will make little difference to the end-user. I mean, a fingerprint scanner is a fingerprint scanner, it doesn’t matter where it lives, as long as it works.
And it kind of shows just stale things have got in the mobile space when you’re supposed to get excited about different ways of unlocking your phone!
As for specs and hardware, expect the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 to run Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 CPU, feature around 6GB of RAM, and pack in a very impressive camera. There will be plenty of other new things that will no doubt be unearthed between now and its release, as is often the case, so stay tuned for updates.
by rgoodwin via Featured Articles
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