HTC introduced Android-smartphone with fingerprint scanner

It seems that analysts' forecasts coming true much earlier ...

HTC has officially unveiled the smartphone One Max, which should please fans All Android-PHABLET: gadget is equipped with a 5.9-inch screen with a resolution of Full HD. But perhaps the most interesting nuance news can be called a fingerprint scanner, which is located on the rear side of the device under the main 4-megapixel camera. The company said about such benefits of its decisions before the iPhone 5S, as the ability to assign different functions to different fingers that the user touches the scanner.

However, according to the first reviews, Not so good... The main criticism is directed towards the sensor. The fact that the scanner requires sliding finger movement, which inevitably leads to contamination of the nearby window of the camera. Another doubtful point is that in order to use the scanner, you must first unlock the device a more traditional way, making a multi-step process and requires several movements. That is, to take the opportunity to assign, for example, the launch of the camera at the touch of the middle finger, the user needs to press the power button, then hold your finger on the scanner. But why all this when the camera is in the same run with a screen lock any movement of a finger ...

Recently, the head of FIDO Alliance Michael Barrett (Michael Barrett) I told is expected in the beginning of next year in an interview with USA Today, that a new wave of Android-smartphone with fingerprint scanners. It seems that with the time he had a little mistake ...