Monday, April 09, 2012

Samsung adds ‘blink’ feature to ‘Face Unlock’ to spruce up security


Face Unlock is one of the most talked about features in the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). However, tech-blogs and phone reviewers have used it and also come out with ways to override this security unlock feature and get access to the phone.

As have been experimented, Face Unlock, unlocks phone even if you use a photograph of the user. This has been taken up seriously by Samsung and they have come up with a tweak to the feature that asks you to look into the front facing camera and blink as well to serve as an assurance of a living human being. This feature will be included in the custom version of ICS upgrade that will be pushed to Samsung’s devices in coming months.

The feature was announced on Samsung’s blog, Samsung Tomorrow, along with other company and product related updates.


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