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Sunday, August 7, 2022

Flashback: two decades of fingerprint readers on mobile devices

In late 2000 Toshiba unveiled laptops with fingerprint readers, which allowed us to securely unlock their device with a touch of a finger, instead of having to memorize complex passwords. The first phones with a fingerprint reader on board appeared at the same time. We think that the very first was a Sagem MC 959 ID, although apparently Siemens had a working prototype as early as 1998. Possibly the first phone with a fingerprint reader, the Sagem MC 959 ID (image credit) This was quickly adopted by some PDAs as it was seen as a feature for business devices - why else would you need...



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