In the weeks and months leading up to Apple’s iPhone X event this past September, it wasn’t entirely clear what Apple’s rumored facial recognition feature would mean for Touch ID. If you recall, there were a number of speculative reports claiming that Apple was still trying to figure out a way to incorporate Touch ID …
Earlier this month, a Vietnamese security company called Bkav demonstrated how it was able to fool the Face ID feature on the iPhone X with a printed silicon mask wrapped around a 3D frame and 2D infrared images of a human’s eyes. The entire contraption was said to cost in the range of $200 and …
Face ID is one of the iPhone X’s best features, and we’ll see every other company in the industry copy it in the coming years. Computers will be smart enough to recognize our faces and voices, and automatically log us into devices and apps as we open them. Face ID has no rival in the …
OnePlus a few days ago announced its second handset of the year, the OnePlus 5T that’s already the best-sold handset in the company’s short history. The phone generally has the same specs as the OnePlus 5 but features a new design and a few nifty tricks. Speed is one of them, as the OnePlus 5T …
The iPhone X comes with a sophisticated 3D facial recognition system that has no rival in the mobile business right now. It’s more secure than Touch ID, almost as fast, and works pretty much as intended — that’s to say there have been no “Facegates” issues to date. However, the security of Face ID isn’t …
Apple has had a string of solid and, at times, impressive iPhone releases over the past few years. Still, it’s been quite a while since we’ve seen a new iPhone model actually stir up some genuine excitement amongst iPhone users. Sure, camera technology on the iPhone has improved tremendously over the past few years, but …
The iPhone X brings over a brand new type of iPhone feature, one that changes the way you interact with the device, facial recognition. But Apple’s not doing facial recognition the Android way, which can be easily hacked with a photo. Instead, Apple built a miniaturized Kinect that analyzes the unique patterns of each face …
A year of rumors saying the best 2017 iPhone would come with a fingerprint sensor under the display may end up being good news for Samsung fans. The Galaxy S8 should have had a fingerprint sensor under the screen, some rumors said, but the technology wasn’t ready for primetime. More recent rumors claimed that the …
Guess which iPhone X feature will probably be copied by every other company in the industry? If you said “the notch” you’re right. But I’m not talking about the actual notch design on the iPhone X. It’s what’s inside the notch that rightfully deserves to be copied. The TrueDepth front-facing camera system that enables Apple’s …
The iPhone X shares the same specs with the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, but it brings over a variety of features that aren’t available on the other two models. The all-screen design, the incredible OLED display, Face ID, the TrueDepth camera system, Animoji, and the improved telephoto lens on the back, are only …
