Apple firmly holds the position of one of the world's largest manufacturers of smartphones, and this is a major trendsetter in the industry. So, in 2012, Apple introduced the fashion for fingerprint scanners.
According to the site DigiTimes citing sources among suppliers, in 2016 more manufacturers of smartphones running the Android operating system will equip its products fingerprint sensor and screens, touch sensitivity. This should increase the attractiveness of the device against the backdrop of smartphones from Apple.
Sources believe that the touch sensitivity will be the standard for screen Android-smartphone in the top segment of the market next year, and the fingerprint sensor will be more likely to appear in the mid-range devices. In addition, smart phones equipped with a fingerprint scanner manufacturers encourages the growing popularity of payments made by the technology NFC.