Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by biggestfan 363 days ago
The Pixels had the worst option for a while: the under-screen optical sensor. Slow and prone to failure. They've since switched it out for an ultrasonic sensor, but it was shockingly bad for a few years.
2 comments

Nothing better than trying to unlock your phone at night and the screen blasts the white light to illuminate your fingerprint to be read.

Ultrasonic ftw.

I had an Pixel 9 Pro with the ultrasonic sensor and I found that it wouldn't work at all with a tempered glass screen protector. The optical sensor they had for previous generation sort of works fine with a screen protector