Released in 2014, Samsung Galaxy S5 was the first smartphone with a fingerprint scanner. Since then, Samsung has released more than a dozen smartphones equipped with a fingerprint scanner. But now the South Korean giant plans to gradually abandon the use in its mobile devices fingerprint sensors used to unlock and authenticate users. At least, according to Chinese sources.
According to the Internet portal GizmoChina , Samsung is going to abandon fingerprint scanners in favor of face recognition scanner .
The new flagships Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, which will be presented on March 29, in addition to the fingerprint scanner will receive Iris-scanner and facial recognition function , which will unlock the smartphone in just 0.1 seconds. It is possible that Samsung will refuse to use fingerprint scanners in favor of other authentication systems as early as 2018 with the release of Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 9.