When Apple popularized the facial popularity of secure iPhones, sustainable innovation was the transparency of that built-in security in the way we use our phones. I don’t want to move your care to touch a fingerprint reader or enter a code, your phone unlocked, your passwords automatically completed, your bills done, all without moving a muscle.
Now Huawei will do the same, but differently. As reported through the Android Authority, the Chinese giant has filed patents to bring full-screen fingerprint reading to its next generation of smartphones, which it says will be even more transparent than facial recognition. This generation has already been evoked and demonstrated as a concept. However, Huawei’s resolution would change the rules of the game
Users will be able to leave their hands where they are, via an urgent notification on the lock screen or in any application in use, and the screen will authenticate if necessary. This is the next step toward uninterrupted authentication. These lock screen notifications will be more transparent, just press to reply to unlock your device and direct the user to the correct app. Huawei says users will be able to outline screen spaces that do not scan fingerprints, to restrict power consumption.
The news came as the company prepares to launch its flagship new product, the Mate 40. This will be the third premium device to be released after the company’s U.S. blacklist, after mate 30 and P40. These phones have not sold well abroad in China, and the company is moving hard in the background to push its choice of HMS to the Google cell phone you now want to live on.
Therefore, inventions such as full-screen fingerprint reading would lead to a cry for innovation for the company when it wants it most. We don’t know when the time is for this, but with us dressed in a coronavirus mask more often, the return to access facial popularity codes, if the virus spreads, can be perfectly synchronized.
You can expect to see much more of Huawei in the coming months around its ecosystem and its use of HMS to bring it all together. Huawei will have its ability to integrate hardware, OS software, programs and networks into the same ecosystem. Only Apple, he says, can fit into its strategy as it seeks to create its third option for Google iOS and full Android.
The challenge, the company says now, is to talk about all this to a base of non-Chinese users who want to move from Google to its new operating system. As THE UK’s chief customer, Anson Zhang, told me, this strategy is sound. “We have six hundred million international end users in this ecosystem, with massive R&D grades, more than 10% of revenue over ten years. This strategy will work.”
Well, maybe. It is a strategy based on hardware innovation added to its new ecosystem of operating systems and applications. And this safety replacement: moving from facial recognition, which is synonymous with Apple’s FaceID, to anything that never worked well and on a giant scale, would be perfectly suited. This generation has been announced as a dominant security feature in the future.
Huawei has filed its patents in China, the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea and India, so all bets are covered fairly.
I am the founder/CEO of Digital Barriers, which develops complex surveillance responses for defense, national security and combating terrorism. I write about the intersection
I am the founder/CEO of Digital Barriers, which develops complex surveillance responses for defense, national security and combating terrorism. I write about the intersection of geopolitics and cybersecurity, and analyze security and surveillance stories. Contact me at [email protected].