For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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      1111 months ago

      It was literally a perfect design.

      The phone was already on by the time it was at your face.

      I am sad for its loss

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      1011 months ago

      Hard disagree here. Your fingers are already on the display to use your phone, fingerprint reader in the front makes far more sense.

      Often my phone is on a table, all I need to unlock it is touch the screen. No need to pick it up.

      I wouldn’t buy a phone with the fingerprint reader in the back.

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        My problem with the fingerprint reader in the display is that it just doesn’t work well. I’m on a pixel 7 pro, and more often than not it will try and fail a few times, then require a pin unlock. My pixel 5 with the fingerprint reader on the back was nearly flawless.

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          111 months ago

          My Pixel 7 fingerprint reader was unusably bad on Android 13 but now works well on Android 14.

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          211 months ago

          I had a honor 7 and a Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 and the sensor was a thousand times faster and better than the one on my pixel 6.

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          411 months ago

          The one in my Galaxy S22 works great. There is a trick though to make it work even better: Register the same finger twice (and really get all angles). That usually makes the unlock much more reliable.

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          111 months ago

          I jumped to the Pixel 6a to the Pixel 8, and the in display fingerprint scanner got much better