Big Smartphones Getting Bigger or Foldable Screens, ABI Finds
Following the “recent debacle with foldable screens,” full-display smartphones will initially be best realized through better biometrics, said ABI Research Tuesday. Vendors are either increasing screen-to-body size ratios or offering a foldable or flexible screen to enable full-display phones, said…
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analyst Stephanie Tomsett, but they can also get there by reducing the need for sensors, buttons and other features on the front screen. Camera-based recognition will be a dominant smartphone biometric technology, reaching 487 million shipments in 2023, followed by in-display fingerprint scanners with nearly 228 shipments in in the same time frame, said Tomsett. On possible future technologies, Apple has a patent for an iPhone that allows the screen to be a speaker, Samsung has a patent for a smartphone that allows the screen to be a camera and LG has a smartphone patent outlining a full-screen, all-display device, said the analyst.