Update: Or not. As The Cult of Android confirms, this is seemingly just a bogus PR release. A pretty weird thing to fake, though.
The iPhone 5s has a fingerprint scanner. You have have heard about it – Apple has made quite the song and dance. Naturally, other companies have started to follow suit, with the soon to be announced HTC One Max supposedly using the tech. Now it’s Samsung’s turn to get in on the action.
The company has bought up Fingerprint Cards AB. That’s a Swedish firm that specialises in, you guessed it, fingerprint technology. You might have already heard of it thanks to its swipe sensor that features on the Galaxy S4 and Windows 8.1 devices. It will now be rebranded as a part of Samsung and crowned the Samsung Fingerprint Cards Division. Catchy, no?
Samsung has coughed up a lot of cash for this buyout – some $650 million (about £406.5 million) was handed over. We guess that means the same scanning tech will be heading to later iterations of Samsung phones. Or it could be used on the company’s fridges. That would be annoying, wouldn’t it?
Source: Engadget
