We already know that the upcoming Elephone R9 will have its fingerprint scanner integrated into the Home button, that’s nothing out of ordinary at all. But in this case the scanner will have a protective glass cover over it so the controls should be more precise and the recognition faster.
Elephone claim, through the mouth of their director of product design, that according to a long survey it’s much better to use the protective glass for the scanner and not the coating, which is the common solution. The coating while being cheaper is suffering from low surface hardness (3H) and bad abrasion resistance.
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Using the glass cover for the fingeprint scanner you can reach hardness of 6H and it’s also certainly more aestethic and ergonomical. That’s why most of the higher end of the chinese manufacturers are going for it too, even though it’s a fairly expensive solution. So Elephone want to join the good company like Vivo, Oppo, Meizu or LeEco, who are already trying to offer the higher comfort level for the customers with the glass fingerpint scanner cover. More information here and here.
Even the glass as a fingerprint cover …. and please, don’t tell me that is poor or that doing so saves money …
Of course, we still don’t know the price, but it seems to be taking the right path.
I hope they’ll use anti-fingerprint glass coating for this fingerprint scanner glass home button.
no mention of mi5? it also has glass fingerprint scanner
You still deleting our comments with no reason, what s wrong with you if we say just the truth that you are ever late with the news,you missed important review and you have too much news about elephone,but now i understand,and peoples too π good luck
Is correct adapt to new technologies, even if it may mean paying a product something extra!
A decision that surely has been taken to improve performance and visual impact, but also to give a signal to the market….
How to say …. “Elephone is there” !!!
This is a great decision. They have chosen the right way. User comfort is the main thing, money can be adjusted according to needs.
Finally there is something interesting ratger than it looks like iPhone :p
By the way, it’s sleek and stylish by design. Hope the software portion will be well optimized.
I agree with the solution adopted. In many cases coating results in a bad recognition if wet or dirty finger is used.. so i hope that glass coating is the good solution for reliability and accuracy!
Great! It will increase smoothness and durability. They could adopt this idea before. But never mind, they are binging it now ??
Oh Wow how elephone afford to pay to all those fake posters ?
our lil convo
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/gizchina/presales_of_the_ele_whisper_headphones_are_up/#comment-2904485068
The glass cover is described as revolutionary, but I understand that other companies use it from some time. Is there a risk that this glass cover may prove the worst coverage used so far?
In my opinion this is a huge step forwards, glass will be more scratch resistant and than will make the fingerprint more accurate!
Se si sta per essere proprio come il P9000 (One Touch (o cliccare in questo caso) – posteriore, doppio tocco – a casa e toccare e tenere premuto – applicazioni recenti) che sta per essere veramente buono e questo Γ¨ davvero accogliente!
I am not sure how much impact this really has on the finger print, but for me it just screams quality π
well from my experience, i prefer glass over plastic, or whatever else they use, so i am happy about their choice to go with glass
perfect π hopefully they use the glass on both versions of the phone! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5130f2646ed049007f4d7c59ea6db18c6f62f24a18bdb5c57669bde4fe5cac5f.jpg
improving their quality? i like it! π
Too much advertising on these models, I can understand that for them, those will be the “products of the year”, but users need certainty, not a post every day that haunting the web.
I hope to see him soon live, I might start to get tired of this waiting ….