At the Samsung OLED Forum conference, which was held at the Shenzhen Marriott Hotel in China, Samsung has revealed four new features that will be key to its future smartphone designs, and one of the technology they mentioned was in-display fingerprint scanners. Recent reports has revealed that Samsung may use an Ultrasonic in display fingerprint scanner to the upcoming Galaxy S10 series smartphones and it will be paired with haptic feedback across the whole display, which will become an essential competitor to Apple’s 3D Touch.
Great news! Samsung established the direction of mobile phone design in 2019!— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) October 19, 2018
On October 18th, Samsung Display invited about 20 customers to hold the "2018 Samsung OLED Forum" at the Shenzhen Marriott Hotel in China. At the meeting, Samsung showed a PPT pic.twitter.com/sYu0ORTd6V
The company has further suggested that they are looking into solutions that will allow it to hide the in-ear speaker, and the most logical solution would be a piezoelectric speaker that vibrates the smartphone’s frame in order to produce sound, which was previously seen on Xiaomi's Mi Mix smartphones. They have also stated about behind-the-screen selfie cameras which was expected to arrive in next year’s Galaxy S10 or even the Galaxy Note 10, but the company did not reveal the details regarding its implementation.