Biometric payments – forget sensor size, focus on performance
By Jonas Nilsson, Product Manager at Fingerprints
Biometric authentication has come a long way in recent years. Launched in the first Android smartphone almost five years ago, fingerprint touch sensors have quickly overtaken PIN as consumers’ preferred authentication method.
Now, demand for the same level of security and seamless UX is growing across other payments form factors like smartcards and wearables. But as we look to the future, it’s worth taking a closer look at how the changing size and performance of biometrics came to transform the smartphone market, and what that means for these new form factors.
Biometrics’ march into mobile
Since entering the mobile market, we’ve continually been refining our biometric technology to meet ever-evolving customer and device maker requirements...
