Face unlock features are soon arriving on Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 6 (2018), and Nokia 8 as well, HMD Global announced in a tweet. Though the schedule of the update hasn’t been revealed yet, the company has confirmed that the feature will be arriving in a couple of months on all the four Nokia models and that too through over-the-air (OTA) update.
This latest update to the Nokia’s above said models will bring the existing Nokia smartphones against many other Android handsets that offer software-based facial recognition to take on Apple’s Face ID that arrived on the iPhone X last year and will give them a tough competition in terms of sales and usage. Notably, the Nokia X6 that debuted in China last month included Face Unlock support out-of-the-box.
“Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus, and the new Nokia 6, as well as the Nokia 8, will get FaceUnlock as an OTA update in the coming months,” the official Nokia Mobile Twitter account said in response to a query regarding the release of a Face Unlock feature on the Nokia 8. He further added that “all the four models will get the same update at the same time and will receive the same features as well”. The update will not only have The Face Unlock feature but will also accompany the fingerprint unlocking functions as well, that will use the inbuilt sensors on the devices to unlock the screen.
Though Face Unlock is the latest feature for HMD Global, the licensee of the Nokia brand for phones, as it brought the feature to Nokia X6 initially and is now expanding its presence to existing Nokia models. But this kind of similar features is already available on a list of Android devices. Companies such as Asus, Huawei, and OnePlus have already bought the facial recognition functionality to their existing models through software updates. Similarly, some big names including Oppo, Samsung, and Xiaomi recently started preloading face unlock features on their new handsets.
Basically HMD Global is pretty much popular for delivering the latest Android experiences on its Nokia models through updates. Though The Finnish company announced last month to deliverAndroid P, which is the next major Android update to all its Android devices and to all Nokia phones launched so far. Similarly, it released Android P Beta 2 release for Nokia 7 Plus users earlier this week.