ZTE wants you to unlock your smartphone with your eyes

Entering in passcodes or recreating patterns to unlock your smartphones takes less than a second in most cases is still a minor annoyance, especially when you accidentally mess up, are in a hurry, or aren’t in a position to enter in anything. Facial recognition and fingerprint scanning have been offered as alternatives with varying success but ZTE believes it has a better solution: eye-based biometric scanning. 

ZTE, a leading global mobile device maker, today announced at the Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona that a new flagship device, the ZTE Grand S3, will be launched with a pioneering eye-based biometric solution from EyeVerify. The solution, Eyeprint ID ™, allows users a password-free method of unlocking the Grand S3, offering an enhanced level of privacy and security to the device. ZTE’s Grand S3 is one of the first smartphones in the world to offer this solution. “We are delighted to announce our partnership with EyeVerify that brings their leading Eyeprint ID™ solution to the ZTE Grand S3,” said Adam ZENG Xuezhong, Executive Vice President of ZTE Corporation and CEO of ZTE Mobile Devices. “Our ZTE Grand series of smartphones is focused on offering the most secure devices in the market for business users worldwide. Coupled with EyeVerify’s leading solution, the ZTE Grand S3 represents an unbeatable option for smartphone privacy.”