The blogger made a test for survivability to the display scanner of prints
Amateur check on smartphones on The strength of JerryRigEverything pretty quickly got to smartphone Vivo X20 Plus UD whose fingerprint scanner is located under the screen. AT his new video blogger checked, will be if the scanner itself is scratched if the screen itself is scratched.
As checked
Have Vivo X20 Plus UD quite common for modern smartphones screen with quite standard resistance to scratches. Therefore, the blogger operated a quartz probe with 7th degree of hardness scale of Mohs. To begin with, he made some scratches in area of the biometric scanner. The scanner was working. Then a few scratches turned into whole grid, but the scanner still worked. The glass cracked only after the blogger had heavily stamped the probe into one and then same place on for ten seconds.
Will there be a scratched scanner?
FROM one side screen replacement due to a non-working scanner - this additional expenditure on repairs. AND spending is very tangible, because the replacement of the screen is one of the the most expensive repair procedures. FROM On the other hand, the scanner has shown itself to be robust and shamed the other manufacturers, who six months ago claimed that it was impossible to make such a scanner. As the blogger joked, probably Apple will " invent " this scanner sometime in a couple of years.