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  • - Hey, I'm Vlad with The Verge, here at CES 2018.

  • And the phone I have in front of me is

  • the first one to have a fingerprint censor

  • integrated into the display.

  • And it actually worked.

  • (melodic upbeat music)

  • So this is the first phone to have the fingerprint censor

  • integrated into the display.

  • So it's right in this area down here.

  • Which is available to use as you would with

  • any other smartphone display.

  • But when you lock the phone,

  • and you want to unlock it,

  • it turns into a fingerprint sensor.

  • It works exactly like the Capacity fingerprint censor

  • you might have seen on Apple iPhone

  • or Samsung Galaxy S-whatever.

  • But the difference and the advantage now is that

  • you have these ultra-thin bezels,

  • top and bottom on the phone

  • but you still have the fingerprint sensor

  • right at the front where it used to be.

  • And for a lot of people it should be.

  • If you have no bezels, you have no where to put it.

  • So, a lot of companies had to come up with compromises.

  • Samsung's solution was to put it on the back

  • but way over here on the side.

  • Which is terrible ergonomically.

  • Apple's solution was to just forego

  • Touch ID entirely on the iPhone X.

  • Neither of which was really ideal.

  • There were many reports that Samsung and Apple

  • were trying to integrate it into the display itself.

  • Under the OLED panel.

  • And that's exactly what Vivo has done here

  • with the help with Synaptics.

  • Vivo is the first company to introduce this.

  • It's very likely that there'll be others following on,

  • for the rest of the year in 2018.

  • And it's really impressive.

  • It's exactly, it works exactly as

  • the usual capacative fingerprint sensor does.

  • But it's just integrated into the display.

  • It feels a little bit magical because

  • you're using the display as you would on any other phone.

  • But when you lock the phone,

  • and you're trying to unlock it

  • you put your finger on it and it authenticates you.

  • It does the usual biometrical authentication.

  • It's optical, like the previous stuff.

  • Now, this only works with OLED panels because it's optical.

  • And there's a synaptics sensor down here at the bottom

  • which looks through the OLED dots.

  • This wouldn't work with an LCD

  • because that requires a backlight

  • which would block that recognition.

  • So, you will only be able to find this

  • on smartphones with OLED displays

  • coming up in the rest of this year.

  • The only difference relative to the usual

  • fingerprint sensors is this one

  • seems to be a little bit slower.

  • It isn't quite as lightning-fast as something like,

  • you would get on the previous iPhones or

  • the OnePlus 5t and so on.

  • But it's tolerably slow.

  • It's not something that really slows you down.

  • Even though it's not terribly well-known globally

  • Vivo is actually one of the world's

  • biggest smartphone manufacturer's.

  • Owing to a lot of success in it's native market of China.

  • This companies the first to come out with this

  • Synaptics integrated fingerprint sensor solution.

  • But I'm confident that there'll be a whole bunch of others

  • joining it as we go through the year 2018.

  • The phone that we're looking at here at CES

  • is very close to the final product.

  • It has an aluminum uni-body.

  • No fingerprint sensor on the back because obviously

  • it's intgrated into the display itself.

  • I'm liking the fact that it has a headphone jack.

  • So, thumbs up for that.

  • But I'm noticing right next to the headphone jack

  • is a micro USB port which doesn't make much sense to me.

  • USB-C is the standard of the future.

  • It's reversible.

  • It's better in almost every single way.

  • And this being Vivo's next flagship

  • and having this brand new, futuristic technology

  • it makes sense that Vivo would give it

  • the full top-spec treatment.

  • So, this might not be the phone you end up buying

  • with a fingerprint sensor integrated

  • directly into this display.

  • But I'm confident that the technology itself,

  • once you try it, is something that

  • a whole bunch of people are going to want and like.

  • In part because it's so futuristic feeling.

  • It's a technology that used to be

  • on a discreet, separate piece of hardware

  • now integrated directly into the display.

  • It's seamless, and it's kinda beautiful.

  • So, for more technology like this

  • follow us here on CES 2018

  • on theverge.com and YouTube.com/theverge

- Hey, I'm Vlad with The Verge, here at CES 2018.

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