Not exact matches
The camera works as a security system, too, though it lacks the sophistication of Apple's Face ID, found on the iPhone X. Samsung combined two existing features, face unlock and
iris scanning,
into a feature called Intelligent
Scan.
The major news in that Samsung's
iris scan and face lock authentication methods are being married together into Intelligent S
scan and face lock authentication methods are being married together
into Intelligent
ScanScan.
It will be interesting to see if Samsung incorporates a similar idea
into its
iris scanning technology or if Apple can muster up something similar with Face ID.
Then unlock the phone --- by swiping, using the fingerprint scanner, or
scanning your
irises — and you're catapulted
into a cleaner colored gradient, with the same animated star field in the background.
Samsung added a feature called Intelligent
Scan in the S9 and S9 +, which joins the traditional passcode in addition to the fingerprint sensor, face recognition and
iris scanning features already baked
into previous generations of the Galaxy S line.
Both offer face,
iris and fingerprint
scanning, although the Galaxy S9 + combines
iris and face
into Intelligent
Scan for more reliable unlocking.
And despite Samsung merging
iris scanning and face unlock
into one with Intelligent
scan on the Galaxy S9 this year, it is unlikely that the new biometric verification system is more secure than last year.
With Intelligent
scan, Samsung has merely merged
iris scanning and face unlock
into one but the individual weaknesses of both these biometric verification methods remain.
As Samsung puts it, Intelligent
Scan combines
iris scanning and face recognition
into one to ensure that your phone gets unlocked irrespective of the situation you are in.
Fingerprint sensors are becoming all the rage these days, with nearly all well - known smartphone manufacturers implementing the feature
into their high - end handsets, but
iris scanning technology has been something of a whisper.
Not content at stopping there, Samsung has bolstered the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus security features by combining
iris scanning and facial recognition
into a feature called Intelligent
Scan.