The market for fingerprint-enabled smartphones will grow significantly...
The market for fingerprint-enabled smartphones will grow significantly in the coming years, IHS predicted Monday. The technology is featured in Apple’s new iPhone 5s and that’s “inspiring a wave of imitators,” said the research company. A total of 525 million…
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smartphones with integrated fingerprint sensors will ship in 2017, up from 45.7 million this year and 4.5 million in 2012, it predicted. Fingerprint scanning for security, authentication and other purposes has “always been a conceptually attractive solution” in smartphones, said IHS analyst Marwan Boustany in a news release. But “cost, size, performance and reliability issues have prevented fingerprint sensors from attaining widespread adoption,” he said. Apple overcame those challenges in the iPhone 5s and Apple’s fingerprint sensor solution “delivers seamless functionality,” he said. Fingerprint sensors were used in handsets as far back as 2000, first in a cellphone sold by Sagem, said IHS. Other cellphone brands that offered fingerprint sensors included Fujitsu, Pantech, LG and Motorola, said IHS. New fingerprint-enabled cellphones include HTC’s One Max, the Konka k5 Van Gogh and Pantech Vega Secret Note, said IHS. IHS expects Samsung will roll out fingerprint-enabled smartphones in 2014, the research company said.