OnePlus 6T vs Vivo V11 Pro: In-display Fingerprint Scanner Showdown

The OnePlus 6T is now official and although it isn't a whole lot unlike from the OnePlus 6, it does bring in some cool new features which might appeal to a large audition. The device features pretty much the same internals every bit the OnePlus 6, but information technology packs in a bigger 6.41-inch brandish, a larger 3,700mAh battery, and an in-display fingerprint scanner called Screen Unlock.

Here, we'll be taking a closer look at Screen Unlock on the OnePlus 6T and compare it with the under-brandish scanner on the recently launched Vivo V11 Pro. In terms of hardware, both the devices characteristic the same 4th-gen nether-display fingerprint scanner from Synaptics, but there'due south a significant divergence in the mode OnePlus has implemented the scanner on their device.

I used the Vivo V11 Pro quite extensively back when information technology was launched and I was pretty impressed past the performance of the in-brandish fingerprint scanner. The company claimed that information technology was 10 percent faster than the previous gen scanners and 50 pct more than secure, and while I can't really comment on the security attribute, the fingerprint scanner did seem a tad fleck faster.

In comparison with OnePlus' implementation still, the in-display fingerprint scanner on the Vivo V11 Pro feels kinda sluggish. While the fingerprint scanner on the OnePlus 6T works quite instantaneously, the one on the Vivo V11 Pro takes a little longer. While I'k not certain how OnePlus managed to go far that fast, my all-time estimate is that the company really optimized the software quite well for the fingerprint scanner to perform and then well. However, there's a major issue.

OnePlus seems to have forgotten that most, if not all, users tend to customize the wallpaper in order to make it their own, but if you're going to practice that with the OnePlus 6T, yous'll run into some trouble with Screen Unlock, at this stage. In my testing, the in-display fingerprint scanner slowed down considerably if I wasn't using i of the stock wallpapers. I tested the issue out with a agglomeration of different wallpapers, using dissimilar lock screen/home screen wallpaper combinations, and the issue persisted. So, with a custom wallpaper on the OnePlus 6T, information technology's no better than the Vivo V11 Pro in terms of the unlocking speed.

When compared to the capacitive fingerprint scanner on the OnePlus 6, the optical fingerprint scanner on the OnePlus 6T is just milliseconds slower. OnePlus claims that the in-display fingerprint scanner on the OnePlus 6T takes only 0.36 seconds to unlock and compared to the 0.2 seconds taken by the OnePlus 6, there'due south hardly whatsoever difference. So if you lot're switching to the OnePlus 6T from any device other than the OnePlus 6, you won't exist able to observe any difference.

In decision, Screen Unlock on the OnePlus 6T is currently the fastest in-display fingerprint scanner on a smartphone today and it definitely adds some value to the device. Using Screen Unlock on the OnePlus 6T is quite satisfactory and I often institute myself unlocking the device over and over again without whatever rhyme or reason. I merely hope OnePlus manages to fix the wallpaper related issue because I, for one, wouldn't desire to keep using the stock wallpapers on my smartphone.