BUSINESSSamsung Galaxy Note eight smartphone (Yonhap)Samsung Electronics is likely to adopt in-display imprint scanning for its upcoming flagship Galaxy Note nine smartphones, according to industry sources on Thursday."Samsung Display has prepared 3 or 4 solutions for Samsung Electronics to embed the imprint sensor inside of the major display, and both are seriously considering 1 of the solutions," a source told The Korea Herald."The delay in deciding on the final concept for the Note nine is because of the work in adopting the in-display imprint sensor," the source added. "A final decision on adoption of the tech going to be made with this month."In Former years, the concept for a flagship smartphone was finalized about 5 months before its launch.Industry watchers told they highly expect that the 9th edition of Samsung's premium Note series going to have an in-display imprint sensor in order to differentiate it from phones unveiled with Chinese rivals such as Vivo and others that going to be released with Huawei smartphone soon.Samsung Display has been emerging technologies for years to commercialize smartphone panels embedded with imprint sensors, however they haven't reached the parent company's expectations.The panel-making subsidiary of Samsung Electronics is working to get best imprint scanning tech on flexible AMOLED panels for the Note 9, another source explained."There is sufficient time for the display firm to get best the tech to meet the handset maker's expectations before the launch of the Note nine in late August," he said.To explain why Samsung is making attempts to fit the imprint sensor in the display, an analyst highlighted Samsung's longtime defy in placing the imprint module.Samsung changed the location of the imprint module on the latest Galaxy S9 series, however saved it on the rear side of the new smartphones. By saving the imprint module on the rear side of the latest Galaxy S9 series smartphones, Samsung couldn't expand the battery life compared to the Former models."The module on the Note 8, that was located horizontally on the left side of the dual cam module on the rear side of the smartphone, was a the reason great inconvenience," he said."The firm fixed the crisis with placing the imprint module below the cam module on the latest S9 series, however having the module on the back lowers space for larger batteries," he added.Meanwhile, Samsung Display technologies are being considered for adoption with some Chinese handset makers, according to the sources.Jusy Hong, director at IHS Markit, told during the Korea Display Spring Conference 2018 this 7 days that imprint authentication integrated into smartphone displays going to recently be released into the market, generality likely with Huawei smartphone later this 30 days with the P11 or with Samsung with the Note 9.In January, Vivo reported it had developed the world's premier smartphone with a imprint scanner built into the display in collaboration with sensor firm Synaptics, that has partnered with Samsung Display before."While Apple going to stick to its 3-D Face ID solution, Samsung and Huawei smartphone are Guessed to adopt the display integrated imprint authentication method," Hong said."Considering technological complexity, the in-display scanning tech going to cost further than the Face ID tech that is estimated to be $15.2 per unit."Samsung purveys around ten mn units per year of Note series smartphones, the generality expensive models between Samsung phones, and therefore adoption of the in-display imprint scanning tech is reasonable, the analyst said, in terms of mass produce yields."The biggest concern for Samsung Electronics going to be low yields of phones with the newest in-display imprint sensor," told an formal at a biometrics solution developer."A majority of the industry tells that technological capabilities to mass produce those phones are continue lacking."He added, "Samsung would want to launch its premium phones with best imprint sensing performance versus rivals and higher yields of commercialization."Meanwhile, Koh Dong-jin, CEO and head of Samsung's smartphone business, told final 30 days at a press conference held in Barcelona, "Samsung won't rush to launch foldable or display touch phones being aware of Chinese players.""We going to launch them with further mature technologies the time consumers are truly in want of those products," Koh said.By Song Su-hyun ( song@heraldcorp.com
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