700 smartphone models now use fingerprint recognition technology

Seven hundred smartphone models now use fingerprint recognition according to biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards AB.

This is 100 more models than a year ago and 500 at the beginning of 2021, The Xiaomi K60, is the 700^th model to join the biometrics trend and integrates the FPC1632Fingerprints’optical under-display sensor.

“We have witnessed accelerated demand for biometrics in smartphones over recent years. To see Fingerprints’ sensors now integrated into 700 different smartphone models is a phenomenal achievement” said Fingerprints’ president of mobile Haiyuan Bu,

Demand for mobile biometrics is set to be worth $184.8 billion by 2031 says Fingerprint Cards.