LG announced its new G8 ThinQ smartphone on Sunday, and it comes with a unique trick to unlock the phone: vein recognition.
Indeed, the LG G8 uses the veins in the palms of your hands to unlock the phone, which the company calls “Hand ID.” It’s a novel method, but it’s the same idea as advanced facial recognition.
To detect and recognize your veins, the LG G8 has what LG calls a “Z” camera that detects a users’ veins with infrared light. There’s also a 3D sensing “time of flight” (ToF) camera on the front of the LG G8 that detects the shape, thickness, and other individual characteristics of a user’s palms.
To unlock the LG G8 using Hand ID, a user needs to hover their palm above the LG G8’s selfie camera, and raise it up slowly:
Under the hood, you’ll find things like a Snapdragon 855 chipset, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage (that can be expanded), and a 3,500 mAh battery.
Look at the spec Sheet below;
LG G8 Specifications & Price
| Operating System | Android 9 Pie |
| Display |
6.1-inch OLED 3120×1440 Gorilla Glass 6 HDR 10 |
| Processor | Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 |
| Storage | 128GB |
| Expandable | microSD up to 2TB |
| RAM | 6GB |
| Camera (Main) |
12MP, 1.4µm pixels, ƒ/1.5, OIS 78° lens |
| Camera (Wide) |
16MP, 1.0µm pixels, ƒ/1.9 107° lens, fixed focus |
| Camera (Telephoto) | 12MP, 1.0µm, ƒ/2.4, 56mm OIS |
| Front Camera |
8MP, ƒ/1.7 80° lens, fixed focus |
| Front Camera (Secondary) | ToF |
| Connectivity |
Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0 LE,
NFC USB-C 3.1 |
| Audio |
32-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC Boombox speaker Crystal Sound OLED Stereo Speaker Headphone jack |
| Battery |
3500mAh Non-removable |
| Charging |
USB-C Quick Charge 3.0 Qi wireless |
| Water resistance |
IP68 MIL-STD 810G certified |
| Security |
Rear fingerprint sensor Face unlock Hand ID |
| Dimensions | 151.9 x 71.8 x 8.4 mm |
| Weight | 167 grams |
| Colors | Carmine Red, New Aurora Black, New Platinum Gray |
guess LG is back with vengeance
This is technology
Though the battery should have been increase
LG are vexing.
very soon, we will be hearing of tongue unlocking.
They should do eye unlocking instead
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Nice but the battery juice not to impressed
With this vain recognition, it looks like their primary motive was to do something different.
Lg is trying but I don’t like their phone.
it’s a nice device
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Impressive for a phone to detect hemoglobin in our veins ??
LG not smiling at all… Great device
The uniqueness is awesome…
Awesome.
LG doing good warming up
2019 is turning out to be year of crazy tech specs
Vein again??? Very soon it will be teeth unlock
Another one.. Yet to try out any of the recent devices, they do sound like it’ll be amazing from online
It is an amazing approach but not necessary. I mean, is unlocking phone with one’s vein more convenient than other means? How secure will it be?