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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

My Pixel 7 has the fingerprint reader behind the screen and it’s awful. Unless you’ve got the greasiest fingers of anyone who ever lived, it fails to log you in.

Instead the face recognition kicks in, and then fails when you try to make a payment, asking for your fingerprint again.

It’s fucking aggravating.

My crappy old Huawei thing has a separate panel for fingerprints and it never failed to work.

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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
They said the same about the 6 but honestly it works pretty well for me most of the time.

Sorry, I have God fingers I guess. blessed by the finger maiden.

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- WhyFlip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The fingerprint readers on the Pixel 6, 7, and 8 all fucking suck.
  
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independantiste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The pixels from 6 to 8 use an optical fingerprint scanner, and optical scanners almost universally suck, because they use a tiny camera to see your finger through the display on your phone. Most phones including the pixel 9’s include an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner, which is more reliable, faster, doesn’t flashbang you in the dark, and has the potential to be much bigger (think lower half of the phone is the fingerprint scanner).

I haven’t had trouble with under display fingerprint scanners since I had my S23 (ultrasonjc), but my previous has an optical one and it was the worst thing I’d used.

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- Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’ve used standalone optical readers before, and the ones that worked well had a slightly tacky rubbery-plastic layer on them, that I think helps with making the fingerprint stand out. Obviously can’t do that on a screen, because it’d be weird.
  
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