Sagem Wireless and UPEK are teaming up to bring fingerprint identity capabilities to a range of new devices that Sagem Wireless is expected to launch later this year, including new Android-based smartphones.
UPEK is the company that is considered to have a superior fingerprint technology, which offers industry-leading recognition accuracy, ruggedness, power efficiency, and enhanced touch-input capabilities as well as support of a standards-based, open-platform software solution.
Together, the two companies will offer an open fingerprint identity solutions, enabling all interested parties to make mobile applications and services more secure, faster and easier to use…
And that’s about it. If you want to see how this works in real-world (and you’re also in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress), make sure to check out Sagem’s booth in Hall 8 (stand B94).