GIGABYTE has this week announced the launch of its latest series of CPU liquid coolers in the form of the AORUS Waterforce X II and Waterforce II. These new products are designed to meet the cooling needs of a wide range of computer users, from those of you thinking of building your next PC rig […]
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In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses and individuals are constantly on the lookout for tools that can help them manage their online content more effectively. Microsoft has introduced a new solution that is capturing the attention of many AI enthusiasts and developers in the form of Microsoft Copilot Studio. This platform allows users to create […]
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This guide is designed to show you how to improve your concentration and focus whilst working or studying with the help of Google Bard, this is something that I struggle with daily due to the many distractions of working online. You can use Google Bard and other language models like ChatGPT to help you improve […]
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In the dynamic and rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence, the introduction of Google’s Gemini, a groundbreaking new AI model, has sparked widespread discussion and piqued considerable interest among tech enthusiasts and industry experts alike. This article delves deeply into the intricacies and innovations of Gemini, placing a special focus on how it compares to […]
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When LG still made phones (sigh), at one point it tried to implement a "Hand ID" unlock gimmick on the G8 ThinQ, though in our experience, there was much room for improvement. For one, you'd have to turn on the screen first to toggle hand tracking. That was dumb. Fast forward to today, Realme is bringing a similar feature back to a new phone, the GT5 Pro, with support for some seemingly practical hand gestures.
Rather than using a time-of-flight camera and an infrared light, the Realme GT5 Pro utilizes its 32-megapixel selfie camera to detect your palm print. In the above demo, you can see how the screen wakes up automatically when the palm moves away from it. I highly doubt that the front camera stays on all the time, so I'm willing to bet that this is working in conjunction with an ultrasonic proximity sensor — most likely by Elliptic Labs, which is present on many Android handsets.
Realme said palm unlock is faster than face recognition, partly thanks to machine learning using over 10,000 models. The company even went as far as claiming that this security feature passed a penetration test involving over 10 million attacks. Still, the good-old under-display fingerprint reader is still there, so palm unlock is just an extra option — probably the most convenient for when you're cooking or driving.
Like the LG, the Realme GT5 Pro also supports several hand gestures. A pinch gesture would toggle the recent app list, and from there you can gently brush left or right to browse through the recent apps. Holding up your index finger will toggle cursor control, and hovering over a spot triggers a click. A three-finger palm gesture takes a screenshot. Flipping your palm around takes you back to the home screen. Pointing your thumb to the left toggles a "back" action. Finally, moving your palm towards the screen switches it off.
The phone itself is otherwise a standard flagship affair. It packs Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, a 6.78-inch curved AMOLED panel from China's BOE (2,780 x 1,264, 144Hz, 4,500 nits), a generous 5,400mAh battery which supports 100W fast charging (12 minutes to 50 percent charge) or 50W wireless fast charging, USB-C 3.2, NFC, dual speakers and infrared remote. As part of its nine-layer thermal structure, Realme threw in a three-layer vapor-cooling chamber, which apparently has the industry's largest cooling surface area. The device is also rated with IP64 for dust and liquid protection.
Photography-wise, you get a 50-megapixel main camera (powered by a Sony LYT-808 sensor; as found on the OnePlus 12), an 8-megapixel ultra-wide camera and the same 50-megapixel, 3x periscopic telephoto camera (with a Sony IMX890) as the one on the Oppo Find X6 series. You can already tell the synergy between Realme, Oppo and OnePlus within the BBK family here.
The Realme GT5 Pro is available in China starting from 3,298 yuan or about $460 for the 12GB RAM with 256GB storage model, and maxing out at 4,198 yuan or $590 for the 16GB RAM with 1TB storage model. Color options include black for the glass body, and orange or gold for the vegan leather options.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/realmes-gt5-pro-phone-can-unlock-itself-by-reading-your-palm-091320182.html?src=rss
Although notches and cutouts, including Apple’s Dynamic Island ‘pill,” have become the industry standard for cramming front-facing cameras and sensors on smartphones, they are hardly the ideal solution. Because of the blemish they put on the phone’s display, not to mention the area of unusable space they incur, they’re both unattractive and wasteful. The ideal solution and Holy Grail that designers and manufacturers have been chasing after is having no cutout at all, with the camera invisibly hidden beneath the screen. As many smartphones, including the Galaxy Z Fold series, demonstrate, that’s easier said than done. That said, everyone seems to be moving in that direction, including Apple, which might already be preparing for an iPhone that’s all-screen, coming in 3 or 4 years.
Designer: Apple (via The Elec)
Image courtesy of Samsung
Hiding a camera lens or other sensors beneath the screen is no easy task. A camera will need to capture light from the outside in order to actually form a picture, but a screen is mostly opaque so no light will reach it normally. This is why Under-Display Cameras (UDC) or Under-Panel Cameras (UPC) actually have a lower resolution in the area directly above the camera compared to the rest of the screen. A lower resolution means fewer pixels, which means some light will be able to pass through to the sensor beneath. At the same time, however, the resolution shouldn’t be too low that you can make out the individual pixels with the naked eye, destroying the illusion.
There are other technical considerations with UDCs, including how the display’s own illumination could bleed into the camera, a flaw that Samsung is probably too familiar with. With so many parts of the puzzle, it’s no wonder that Apple isn’t in a rush to adopt this rather young technology, even if other brands like Samsung and ZTE have already jumped on the bandwagon. It won’t hold off forever, of course, and it seems that the ball has started rolling for an iPhone with that design in 2027 at the earliest.
Image courtesy of MacRumors
According to industry sources, LG has started work on a solution to the deterioration of image quality due to the loss of light in under-display cameras. It’s designing a special lens that is composed of multiple lenses to be able to gather more light despite the screen’s pixels blocking most of the area. Of course, the technology is still under heavy development, so even if Apple were to use it, won’t be happening even in the next two years.
In fact, Apple is expected to first adopt a familiar circular punch-hole cutout for either the iPhone 16 Pro next year or the iPhone 17 Pro. The iPhone 17 Pro is also speculated to be the first to use an “Under Panel Face ID” technology before Apple finally jumps to an all-screen iPhone design after 2026, possibly with the iPhone 20 Pro, if that will be its name.
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In the ever-evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), Google has been a prominent figure, leading the way with innovative breakthroughs that have continually redefined the technological landscape. The company’s commitment to advancing AI is evident through its series of notable language models, including the highly influential BERT and LaMDA. Building on this legacy, Google AI […]
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Google recently announced their new AI Model, Gemini and now they have revealed that it is coming to Google Bard. Google announced that there will be three versions of Gemini and Bard will get the Gemini Pro version. Bard will get Gemini in two phases, there will be a tuned version of Gemini Pro available […]
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Google has introduced its latest AI model called Gemini and the search giant has said that this is the first model that can outperform human experts on Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU). Gemini will bring AI-powered features to the Google Pixel 8 Pro smartphone and it will also be integrated into Google Bard, the video […]
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Apple recently released iOS 17.2 Release Candidate for the iPhone, they also released the iPadOS 17.2 Release Candidate for the iPad, the watchOS 10.2 Release Candidate for the Apple Watch, and macOS Sonoma 14.2 for the Mac. We previously saw a video of iOS 17.2 in action and now we have another video this one […]
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