Vivo showcases smartphone with fingerprint sensor under the display

The fingerprint sensors would find its way in smartphones by the first half of 2018

Vivo, a China-based smartphone manufacturer, on June 28 displayed the customised XPlay 6 smartphone with Qualcomm ultrasonic fingerprint sensor embedded under the display at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2017.

In a first for any smartphone, Vivo XPlay 6 utilises fingerprint sensor placed under the screen panel that enables the user to unlock the device by placing the finger or thumb on display. Going forward, the latest ultrasonic fingerprint sensor technology from Qualcomm would allow the smartphone manufacturers to utilise the physical space occupied by the fingerprint sensors for other features.

The Qualcomm fingerprint sensors have become the first major breakthrough