The Galaxy Note 7 has been one of the most disastrous smartphones for Samsung — thanks to the faulty design of the batteries. However, if you look past the battery troubles, the Note 7 was one of the best smartphones you could buy in 2016. It offered a curved edge display, an improved S Pen, a highly intuitive software and the Iris Scanner. The Iris Scanner was Samsung’s solution to contact-less biometric verification and after Apple’s FaceID, it has been a mainstay on the S series phones as well. Sadly, that wouldn’t be the case anymore with the S10.
According to a new report from SamMobile, Samsung could be willing to kick out the Iris Scanner from the Galaxy S10 series. The removal of the Iris Scanner will help Samsung push the display to the extreme edges, with the front camera being the only item that will retain its position within a hole in the display.
While the Iris Scanner was always slower as compared to the fingerprint sensor, it was the only contact-less biometric verification system that Samsung came up for answering the facial recognition systems. However, with the iris scanner gone, Samsung will only rely on the ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor on the S10 for verification purposes. The in-display sensor will be borrowed from Qualcomm’s system and should theoretically provide faster as well as convenient unlocking systems. Samsung is said to be confident of the single verification system, similar to Google’s approach for the Pixel series of smartphones.
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