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  • Enhanced Security Behind Pixel 6’s Slow Fingerprint Sensor

    Enhanced Security Behind Pixel 6’s Slow Fingerprint Sensor

    Google says the slow fingerprint scanning on its flagship Pixel 6 is the result of ‘enhanced security algorithms.’

    The Pixel 6 is Google’s latest version of its flagship line of phones and features the company’s Tensor system on a chip (SoC). The new phone offers performance on par with the fastest Android phones, but the speed of the in-screen fingerprint sensor is not one of the phone’s highlights. Users have reported slower than normal speed, compared to other high-end devices.

    According to Google, the slower speed is the result of enhanced security.

  • Pixel 6 Delivers Impressive Android Performance

    Pixel 6 Delivers Impressive Android Performance

    Early benchmarks are in and Google’s Pixel 6 is chalking up some impressive performance results.

    Unlike previous iterations of the Pixel line of smartphones, the Pixel 6 is using Google’s Tensor, its custom-built system on a chip (SoC). While many chips powering Android devices use a single high-performance Cortex-X1 core, the Tensor has two Cortex-X1 cores.

    Despite its design, BGR reports the Pixel 6 doesn’t quite knock off the Snapdragon 888 as the reigning speed champion in the Android market — at least not in straight CPU performance. Where the Tensor chip crushes it, however, is in its GPU performance, easily delivering the best performance of any Android phone on the market.

    As BGR points out, the fact that Google was able to deliver this kind of performance in their very first SoC is an impressive feat, and one that bodes well for the future.