Report: Chinese Android makers are testing under-display selfie cameras with 3D facial recognition
The report comes from tipster Digital Chat Station and suggests that we may soon see the first crop of devices with the 'invisible' selfie cameras for biometric authentication. No specific maker or model was mentioned for now.
While iPhones have had 3D face recognition for a while, it is still a rarity on Android devices. Honor is one of the only makers to offer the feature, with the Magic7 Pro being the most recent example.
We've also seen several Android devices with under-display (UD) selfie cameras, mainly from the ZTE nubia lineup - the Z70S Ultra being one recent example. What we haven't seen yet is a device that has both 3D face scanning and a UD camera, so it would be interesting to see how this tech develops and which brand will release the first device combining both features.
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