Huawei subsidiary Honor has fitted its new Honor 10 smartphone with an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor under the display glass. — dpa
Normally you'd expect to find a smartphone's fingerprint sensor on the home button on the front, where it's easiest to access. But manufacturers are going to extreme lengths to make room for a new kind of front with nothing but screen – no buttons, no edges.
That's why Huawei subsidiary Honor has fitted its new Honor 10 smartphone with an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor under the display glass.
Adding a new feature that Apple and Samsung smartphone users can still only dream about, Honor now lets you securely unlock your phone just by placing a finger onto the screen.
Another special feature is that the phone's dual camera (24 and 16 megapixels) is apparently able to recognise a range of objects and scenes and then set the exposure appropriately. That means the phone can optimise individual image components, such as people, the sky or a landscape.
To make this work, the smartphone has its own Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to support artificial intelligence (AI), running with the 8-core processor (Kirin 970).
The Honor 10 has a 5.84-inch display (2,280 x 1,080 pixels) in an almost bezel-less 19:9 aspect ratio, as well as 4 GB RAM and 64 GB of storage. The housing is 7.7mm thin and coated with multiple layers of glass on the back.
This produces colour effects depending on the viewing angle – at least if you order the Honor 10 in green or blue, although it is also available in black and grey. With a top-end 3,400 mAh battery, this Android 8.1-ready phone weighs 153g. It is available in Europe from €400 (RM1,865), with prices elsewhere expected to start at upwards of US$400 (RM1,592). — dpa
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