I Refuse to Believe This Rumor About the i. Phone With No Fingerprint Reader. The Wall Street Journal has the latest rumor on the i. Phone 8likely the last big rumor floated before the phone is announced on September 1. According to the WSJ, the anniversary i. Phone will have no Touch ID, which means your fingerprint will not be used to unlock the phone. When images of the upcoming i. Phone first began leaking, it became clear that the home button most users are familiar with had likely been axed. Instead, according the the WSJ, Apple was focused on embedding a touch sensor in the glass using ultrasonic technology. This tech, which is so new its infantile compared to the capacitive touch sensor technology currently in i. Phones, is notoriously difficult to implement consistently on a mass produced device like the i. Phone. With a new i. Phones due out later this fall, the Apple rumor mill is hitting peak froth. Not onlyRead more Read. Just last year Qualcomm announced it had a version of ultrasonic fingerprint sensors available for use in phones, but the tech was so premature it could only work through a certain depth of glass material. Metal, materials found in LED and OLED displays, and even thicker glass were all incompatible with the sensor. It was only earlier this summer that Qualcomm announced an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that could work with an OLED display. Apple, which has not revealed how long its been working on the tech, reportedly had major issues implementing it in the new i. Phone, so it scrapped the plan altogether.
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