On a recent report Biometrics : Global Smartphone Sales by Fingerprint Placement Forecasts to 2024, Strategy Analytics EDT service has forecasted the evolution of smartphone fingerprint biometrics.

Fingerprint-detection is a popular method of secure-authentication in mobile phones. Most leading phone makers including Samsung, Huawei and others use the technology.
We forecast smartphones with fingerprint sensors to grow with a healthy +9% CAGR in 2018-2024 driven by fast penetration to lower pricepoints.



Currently the backside placement is still the most used, but as technologies improve the behind or in-display sensors will become most used in 2022. The report also decribes the main technologies (capacitive, optical, ultrasoniuc) in fingerprint area and how those will evolve.


For our clients, the report can be found from here.