8 iPhone will have OLED-display with the industry’s best ratio of screen area to frontal surface area, but count on the presence of a fingerprint scanner Touch ID is not necessary. This was reported by reputable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Last week, Qualcomm presented the fingerprint scanners of new generation, which enables to read data through the screen, glass and metal. Went the assumption that such a module will be used in the iPhone 8, but Kuo claims that the new scanners appear on the market soon. The future of the Apple smartphone did not receive the function of fingerprint recognition.
Fingerprint module, which detects a fingerprint through the display, will appear on the market next year. Manufacturers still have to solve some technical problems. In particular, we are talking about the speed of recognition and the quality of the sensors using different materials.
Thus, the function, which was to become the major innovation in the iPhone 8, to debut only next year. The new flagship Apple will get a “minimum framework” among all the smartphones on the market. The smartphone display will occupy almost the entire front side of the device, except for a small insert for the speaker and camera at the top.
The screen size of the iPhone 8 will be 5.8 inches, while the dimensions of the device will not exceed the dimensions of the iPhone 7 having 4.7 inch screen. The device will be clad in stainless steel and glass.
According to Ming-Chi Kuo, front-facing camera in the iPhone 8 will be able to boast of a system for measuring depth, which will significantly increase the reliability of biometric authentication of the user. The device will come in two variants of internal memory is 64 and 256 GB.
The analyst believes that at the time of release Apple will not be able to fully meet the demand for the iPhone 8, and because buyers will face a serious shortage of devices.
