Qualcomm has announced a new smartphone chip called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, and while it looks set to provide future phones with a big performance boost, it will also enable users to unlock their phone by simply looking at the camera.
Existing Android phones that support facial recognition need to be woken beforehand (either by lifting up the phone or pressing a button) before it can start scanning your face. However, with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, Qualcomm has implemented an ‘always-on camera’ feature that allows the sensor to detect your face even when the phone is on stand-by mode.
Qualcomm has achieved this by integrating an ISP (Image Signal Processor) into the chip’s low-power Sensing Hub, which the company claims will also prevent a compromise to the battery life.
This means that if you want to check the time or a new message on your phone, you could theoretically just look at it in order to make the homescreen flash up. It could also speed up the process of logging into your phone, since it could unlock before you’ve even picked it up.
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