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The Galaxy Note 7 is the first smartphone from Samsung to feature and iris scanner, and Samsung’s President of Mobile Division, DJ Koh hopes that it is definitely not the last. The president, in fact, is hoping to bring the technology to their mid-range smartphones its price reduces.
This is unlikely to happen anytime soon, but it is still commendable to see Samsung bring features like iris scanner to its mid-tier smartphones.
“Through continued cost cutting, iris scanning can trickle down to mid-end models,” he added. “There is a view that Android is weak in security compared to its competitor and we want to expand software security that can overcome this image,” said DJ Koh during in an interview that was conducted on the sidelines of the Unpacked event in New York where the South Korean company took the wraps off the Galaxy Note 7.
Early hands-on impressions of the Galaxy Note 7 indicate that while the iris scanner is fast and works as intended, the probability of consumers using it over the fingerprint scanner is slim. It is likely that we will see the iris scanner being further refined in future iterations, and once it works reliably and accurately, Samsung will probably consider bringing it to their mid-range smartphones. (https://kumorisushi.com/) Just don’t expect this to happen anytime soon though.
[Via SamMobile]
