Sweden's Fingerprint Cards has confirmed that Google's new Nexus 5X manufactured by LG and its Nexus 6P manufactured by Huawei both feature its touch fingerprint sensor FPC1025.The rear-mounted sensors are used for a login service called “Nexus Imprint” that lets users wake their phones, unlock apps and make mobile payments all by just pressing with their fingerprint.FPC noted that these are also the first smartphones to use Google's new Android 6.0, a.k.a Marshmallow release, which integrates extensive new fingerprint sensor capabilities.In addition to Android 6.0 and its integrated support for fingerprint sensors Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P includes Android Pay, a secure payment service utilizing the fingerprint sensor for secure and convenient mobile payments.Jörgen Lantto, CEO of FPC, comments: “Google powers a majority of the world's smartphones with its Android operating system and these new Google Nexus devices are the first smartphones to integrate Android 6.0 and its integrated support for fingerprint sensors. We are proud to have collaborated with Google, LG and Huawei to enable the integration of fingerprint sensors in Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P. FPC1025 supports 360 degree finger rotation capability, fast response time and industry leading 3D image quality”.Without naming the specific phones, Precise Biometrics also confirmed on Wednesday that its biometric software had been integrated into “two smartphones from a leading American technology company”.”We are very proud of the confidence the company has shown to us by integrating Precise BioMatch Mobile in two smartphones. These are the first smartphones based on the operating system Android Marshmallow, which strengthens our position as the leading supplier of fingerprint software for mobile devices and gives us good prospects for continued positive market development among other vendors”, says Håkan Persson, CEO of Precise Biometrics.

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