The one found on the OnePlus 3 is rooted into the phone's home button while the Xiaomi Mi 5s uses its new under - glass
ultrasonic fingerprint sensing technology that Tech Times reported to work similarly like the 3D touch on the Apple iPhone 6s and newer models, but without the need for a home button.
The Mate 11 supposed to launch in the second half of the year is rumored to pack Qualcomm's
ultrasonic fingerprint sensing solution.
Qualcomm is expected to do well this year because Huawei's local competitors are also adopting
the ultrasonic fingerprint sensing solution in their own Android smartphones.
The first company to publicly release a smartphone with Qualcomm's
ultrasonic fingerprint sensing solution is going to be Huawei.
Not exact matches
There's also support for Qualcomm
Sense ID in a wide range of chipsets, which support
ultrasonic 3D
fingerprint mapping.
At present, vivo's under - screen
fingerprint -
sensing technology, which is based on Qualcomm next - generation
ultrasonic fingerprint resolution scheme - Qualcomm
fingerprint sensors, has made its debut on the MWCS.
Patent No. 9,747,488, which is titled «Active
sensing element for acoustic imaging systems,» details how an advanced technology can gather biometric data, specifically
fingerprints, using
ultrasonic transmission and detection.
The prototype was first demonstrated to convention goers at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 Shanghai and is based on Qualcomm's
ultrasonic fingerprint sensor technology,
Sense ID.
Qualcomm's
Sense ID, which Vivo based its concept on, has been used in the past, having first debuted on the Xiaomi Mi 5s, i.e. its
ultrasonic fingerprint scanner.
Qualcomm, meanwhile, has a
Sense ID
fingerprint sensor that uses
ultrasonic technology and isn't affected by moisture like other
fingerprint sensors.
The site claims that optical recognition is both faster and more accurate than the kind of
ultrasonic fingerprint scanning made possible by Qualcomm's
Sense ID.