Despite being a more affordable partner for last year’s seeded last year, it began to look like the upcoming Pixel 6A might offer a major improvement compared to the Pixel 6: Faster Fingerprint Sensor. That according to Fazli Halim, a Malaysian YouTuber who seems to have received a Google device that will come a month before its official launch on July 28. We see videos via 9to5google.
This has the potential for good news after the Pixel 6 Series fingerprint sensor eventually becomes a shocking point for the device, and feels slower to authenticate than other mobile phones. “The fingerprint scanner is the only biometric authentication available, and it’s not too good,” wrote and Seifert in our review. The Google support account then suggested that “an upgraded security algorithm” must be blamed for sluggish. The company then tries to overcome problems with software updates, but complaints remain.
Pixel 6A fingerprint sensor looks more promising. You can see the comparison around the 4:55 sign in the video above, when Halim shows he tries to unlock the Pixel 6A on the left, and Pixel 6 Pro on the right. After a short finger tap, Pixel 6A unlocked, while Pixel 6 Pro often struggled and instead asked users to “hold a little longer.” This is not day and night; 6A sometimes fails to unlock after a short tap, and at other times 6 Pro opens locks, but 6A seems more reliable as a whole.
As noted 9TO5Google, the Pixel 6A device displayed in the video is not possible to run the ready -made software, so the comparison may not be in accordance with the user’s experience when officially released. But it is consistent with the comments made by Google’s Head of Hardware Rick Osterloh to Android Central last month, which confirmed that Pixel 6A was sent with a different fingerprint sensor from Pixel 6 and 6 Pro.