Photos show canceled Google Pixel 2 with iris recognition

With the notable exception of the Pixel 4 series, Google has long stuck with fingerprint unlock as the biometric authentication approach of choice for the Pixel household. Now, a recently uncovered Pixel 2 prototype has uncovered that Google imagined about adding a different authentication technology.

The Inner Archive Twitter account has posted images showing a Pixel 2 (Walleye) prototype complete with iris recognition know-how. This enables you to securely unlock your mobile phone by scanning your iris. Test the photographs out underneath.

The device has an IR LED and an “IR-filtered” entrance digicam but no standard selfie digital camera, in accordance to the account. Other claimed dissimilarities consist of no rear digicam flash and the essential AOSP version of Android instead than the Pixel skin. This all seemingly factors to the early mother nature of the prototype gadget.

Experienced Google long gone forward with bringing iris recognition to the Pixel 2 in 2017, it wouldn’t have been the first smartphone brand name to give this tech. 2015’s Fujitsu Arrows NX F-04G Android handset is regarded to be the initial unit with iris scanning. In addition, Microsoft’s Lumia 950 series, the Samsung Galaxy Be aware 7, and Samsung’s Galaxy S8 sequence would’ve all crushed Google to the punch.

We cannot really say that Google skipped out by not adopting this engineering, though. Iris scanning was (and nevertheless is) a phase higher than camera-centered deal with unlock in conditions of stability, and the the tech will work at night time too. Nonetheless, it was a stage down from fingerprint scanners (like the Pixel 2 scanner) when it came to dependability and speed.