Possible use of biometrics in iPhone heat industry

The great opportunity for the touchscreen technology emerged in 2007, with the launch of the iPhone. The success of Apple's smartphone-equipped with an interface which allowed a quick, intuitive navigation, the internet-led most competitors to adopt promptly the technology, which reshaped the industry around pincer movements, to enlarge, and scrolling. With the prediction of large circles of analysts that the next model of iPhone will bring a fingerprint reader, manufacturers of biometric security devices are experiencing big jumps in their stock prices. Investors are betting that other phone manufacturers will adopt quickly the physical identifiers as substitutes of passwords and usernames.
Apple acquired the manufacturer of AuthenTec fingerprint readers for $ 350 million last year. Shortly after, the company recently acquired left to sell their products at Apple's competitors, including Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo and archrival on mobile phones Samsung. Apple will introduce a new version of the iPhone next month, according to Insider on the company's plans who was not authorized to speak about them publicly.
The ABI Research and KGI Securities Thailand are among the market research companies who say the device will have a fingerprint reader to accelerate electronic payments and the recovery of music files, documents and other remote storage in the cloud. Apple declined to comment. "We believe that the iPhone will continue to surpass the Android phones and Windows Phone by wide margin in fingerprint reading technology and design," wrote analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, KGI, in research note. "In this condition, Apple probably will offer users a safer and more intuitive way to perform payment transactions, and access to cloud computing services by cell phone."
Apple acquired the manufacturer of AuthenTec fingerprint readers for $ 350 million last year
Other manufacturers of smartphones and tablets have acquired a new interest in biometrics after purchase of AuthenTec by Apple, says Thomas Marschall, Chief Executive of the Swedish manufacturer of fingerprint readers Need Biometrics. "All competitors seek alternatives to equate to Apple," he says. "We are accelerating the turbines on the edge of the industrial production in the United States" (he declined to provide specific numbers.). The company's shares almost doubled in value Marschall since the announcement of the deal of AuthenTec, in July 2012; the roles of Fingerprint Cards, another Swedish company of biometrics, had its price multiplied by ten, and the actions of the Norwegian company Idex biometrics more than quadrupled in value.
Biometrics companies like Gemalto, the Morpho and Oberthur Technologies are already experiencing some success, insofar as Governments and banks are beginning to adopt fingerprint readers and retina scans and facial recognition systems. In April, the SmartMetric research company said the world market for fingerprint readers will move alone more than $ 10 billion over the next five years. The founder and executive vice President of the Blue Morpho, Bernard Didier, whose company issues driver's licenses with biometric chips in 42 American States and sells to Governments ranging from Albania to the Chile, says the complexity of identity documents issued by Governments will continue to increase.
The Chief Executive of Gemalto, Olivier Shrieked, asserts that the Government of Oman, one of his clients, adds tax stamps, and electronic payment of the toll its biometric identity document. Shares of Gemalto, based in Amsterdam, made a jump of 41 percent in the last 12 months; the roles of Safran, maintains the Morpho, soared 52%.
The manufacturers of readers, however, had problems in introducing the feature in mobile phones. Identification systems for palm prints and fingerprints to intensive use employ large optical readers and too costly to be embedded on a smartphone, and even the systems found in many consumer-oriented laptops have little life. In February, the Pentagon signed a contract worth $ 3 million with the biometrics company AOptix, based in California, to develop a device for smartphones that allows the soldiers to scan faces, eyes, voices and people's thumbs.
For consumers, the biometric identification has not yet come to mobile payments and other jobs of practicality enough to make its use indispensable, says Francisco Jeronimo, an analyst at market research firm IDC. "The only way this technology become dominant is truly that aggregates value to users," says Jaclyn. "It's a long shot."
The first smartphone Motorola Atrix, sold by AT&T two years ago, had a fingerprint reader, but this technology was not present in the Atrix 2, released later in 2011. "It is far from sure that biometrics is the next technology to be considered mandatory Usage," said Neil Mawston, Chief Executive of research firm Strategy Analytics.
Apple is one of the most bem-preparadas to win skeptics, says the Chief Executive of Fingerprint Cards, Johan Carlström. If "Apple can do your fingerprint solution work seamlessly integrated and offer a great user experience, [biometrics] will mean a paradigm shift," he says.