Anicet Mbida 06:52, February 27, 2023

Anicet Mbida delivers to us every morning what is best in terms of innovation.

This Monday, he is interested in a technology for phones presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Qualcomm, the designer of the chips that power almost all Android phones, offers an automatic phone unlocking system in response to FaceID.

The innovation of the day comes to us from Mobile World Congress, the major telephony trade fair which opens its doors today in Barcelona.

This is technology that should appeal to those who unlock their phones hundreds of times a day.

Soon, this will no longer be necessary!

The mobiles will unlock themselves, automatically.

Everything will work with the front camera.

There won't even be a need to touch it.

It will be enough to pass his head in front of the camera and the phone will wake up.

If you turn your head or stop looking at the phone, it will relock.

It is Qualcomm, the designer of the chips that power almost all Android phones that offers this system.

It's a bit of an answer to FaceID, Apple's facial recognition.

Except that we are no longer satisfied with recognizing the face.

We will also follow the eyes and make sure they are looking at the phone screen.

It will have to be reliable, otherwise anyone will be able to access our phone...

This will remain an option… But it is true that they are expected at the turn.

Because, so far, no facial recognition system on Android has really convinced.

We remember the Samsung one that could be unlocked with a photo.

Or that of Google Pixel, which was abandoned after a few months.

But this time, Qualcomm claims to have taken particular care of its device.

If someone else is looking at the phone (say, over their shoulder), it will show an alert and automatically hide anything private like chat bubbles or certain notifications.

On paper, it's quite promising.

But we will really get an idea with the arrival of the first devices.

Do we know when they will be released?

Not yet.

But there is a chance that the option will arrive on future high-end mobiles such as Galaxy Ultra from Samsung or Series 14 from Xiaomi.

In any case, we will have to get used to the fact that the cameras of our phones are constantly monitoring us.

We already have Siri microphones and other Google assistants listening to us 24 hours a day.

Tomorrow, it will be the front cameras that will spy on our slightest eye movements.

It's convenient… but let's hope it doesn't come at the expense of our privacy.