The California-based company ViewSonic will reportedly launch a smartphone with Iris recognition technology sometime in January. Considering that ViewSonic does show its products at CES every year, it can be expected that will reveal the smartphone at this year’s event.
With Iris recognition technology, only the owner of the device, whose iris patterns are recorded, pre-recorded can unlock and access information from a smartphone. The ViewSonic V55 smartphone will include the iris scanner on top right corner of the handset and will be covered be a small piece. Users will have to slide the piece covering the scanner to use it.When they slide it open, the light will turn on indicating that the iris scanner has been activated.
Users can even protect personal files and documents stored in the V55 smartphone using the iris scanner, according to the report.To access those information protected by the Iris recognition sensor, just scan your eye into the sensor and the information will be unlocked.
Coming to the specifications of ViewSonic V55, the device is said to feature a 5.5-inch full HD display of 1080 x 1920 pixel resolution with OGS (One Glass Solution) technology, powered by a 64-bit Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor clocked at 1.4GHz processor Adreno 6036 GPU.
At the camera front, it will have a 13-megapixel rear camera made by Sony along with a front facing camera of unknown pixels. It will also come with 2GB RAM, 16 and 32 GB of onboard storage, however there is no info about expandable storage on this device.
