Android Touch ID will receive alternative

A new wave of Android-smartphone with fingerprint scanner is expected early next year.

As you know, in his new flagship Apple was able to realize an old idea to a whole new level - fingerprint fingers in the iPhone 5S works more accurately than in the previous devices of other companies, and to interact with it much simpler. But the rest of the industry can not afford to sit around ...

FIDO Alliance Leader Michael Barrett (Michael Barrett) He said in an interview with USA TodayThat fans of the Android operating system should wait for a similar set in the iPhone 5S fingerprint scanners for the next six months. According to Barrett, biometric technology will gain wide popularity among users of Android-devices.

FIDO Alliance It brings together 48 companies, including Google and PayPal, and the main task of the organization is to create an open authentication standard. Michael Barrett believes that Apple join them "a couple of years."