The Google Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL were announced yesterday with a host of improvements over the 2023 generation, among which is a new, faster fingerprint reader that is built into the OLED display. Even though the optical fingerprint reader of the Pixel 8 series was better than what came before, it still wasn’t as good as what other brands had.
For the 2024 generation, the optical reader is gone, replaced by a Qualcomm 3D Sonic Gen 2 (an ultrasonic reader). Google claims that it is 50% faster than the reader on the Pixel 8 phones, Qualcomm says that it is the “world’s…
