Samsung Galaxy S6 claimed as having improved feature

Many of us are expecting to see the official unveiling of the next Samsung flagship within the next couple of months. There have been plenty of leaks and rumors about the Samsung Galaxy S6 already, and now it is touted as having an improved feature in the way of a new type of fingerprint sensor.

The fingerprint scanner that features on the current Galaxy S5 and subsequently the Galaxy Note 4 and some other Samsung handsets, is a swipe-based sensor. This is built into the Home button but there has been some frustration among users of the phone concerning errors when trying to use the fingerprint feature. Much of the problem seems to be that the Home button doesn’t have a large enough surface area for sliding a finger across properly. Although the answer to this is to register a fingerprint in various angles this is something that have been missed by a lot of owners of the device, and the tutorial that Samsung provides doesn’t make things very clear.

Sam Mobile cites “highly credible sources” informing them that this swipe-based sensor will be changed to a touch-based sensor for the Galaxy S6. This will be a massive improvement, as it will enable users to register an entire fingerprint rather than a partial one, similar to the way the sensor works in phones such as the I Phone 6 and Huawei Ascend Mate 7. It will still be incorporated into the Home button, but it’s said that this will be made a little bigger to enable the new experience.

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