Slash Gear samsung note 9

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2017 has so far been great for Samsung. It’s Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8 flagships are doing swell. Google has somewhat taken its place in having this year’s most criticized smartphone. And Apple has helped make its case for $1,000 devices. But as great, or even just good, as the Galaxy S8 and Note 8 are, they both suffer from one annoying misfeature: the placement of the fingerprint sensor on the back. If this super early 3D schematics are to be believed, however, Samsung might have finally decided to fix it for next year’s Galaxy S9.

The rear fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S9 felt, and was rumored to be, almost like an afterthought, forced by the unavailability of in-display fingerprint sensors. On the Galaxy Note 8, which had enough time to brew, it almost felt like an insult, with Samsung stubbornly insisting that everything’s fine and dandy just the way things are.