Sweden's Fingerprint Cards has revealed that its FPC1150 touch fingerprint sensor features on the long-awaited new budget smartphone launched this week by China's OnePlus.The Chinese firm has boasted that the sensor, which features on its OnePlus 2, is “faster” than the TouchID deployed on Apple's iPhone.FPC noted in a statement that sales of FPC1150 for this smartphone model are included in FPC's communicated revenue guidance of approximately 2,200 MSEK for 2015.”OnePlus is a leading smartphone manufacturer in China and we are proud that OnePlus selected FPC1150 for OnePlus 2, “said Jorgen Lantto, CEO of FPC.He noted that the FPC1150 supports 360 degree finger rotation capability, a fast response time and “industry-leading” 3D image quality.The OnePlus 2 will feature a 5.5-inch in-cell display with a full-HD (1080×1920 pixel) resolution and 1500:1 contrast ratio. It will be powered by a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 810 v2.1 SoC clocked at 1.8GHz and coupled with an Adreno 430 GPU alongside 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 64GB internal storage.

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