LG G8 ThinQ Hand ID technology is as useless as it is promising

Let's start by making an observation about LG. The South Korean giant's mobile marketing team is unlucky. I do not know if the goal is not to sell devices, but the truth is that LG seems not to be too keen on passing the spotlight of events such as the Mobile World Congress.

In fact, this bad marketing strategy of the brand is reflected in the sales of its devices. In addition, one of the jokes most used by users for this internet outside is that they will wait 6 months to buy this LG G8 ThinQ at half price. ThinQ - even in the name the brand complicates.

However, this article is also to compliment the brand or rather, to praise a step that this may be giving and that may be copied in the future. Although we now see it as something we can consider between ridicule and stranger. We're talking about the Hand ID.

The Hand ID is one of the few highlights of the LG G8 ThinQ

Briefly, this technology uses the front camera and the infrared sensor to scan the veins in your hand and your blood flow. This will allow you to unlock your smartphone in this way. In this Mr. Mobile video, you can see the technology in practice. However, we should note that the LG G8 used is a test model, more subject to failure.



Basically,  you put the smartphone on the table, you bring the palm of the hand and it is unlocked. This technology appears undeniably to help in situations where we do not want to touch the smartphone with dirty or wet hands. For example, in the bathroom or kitchen.

The Hand ID looks like an authentic 'gimmick'

Still, and being at an embryonic stage, it seems to us at the moment a somewhat useless technology. We can, in effect, label it 'gimmick'. Given that we already have waterproof smartphones, why not touch the screen. In addition, in addition to unlocking the device, the Hand ID allows you to open or adjust the volume of an app, such as Youtube.

In short, this is an embryonic technology. It seems useless, but who knows, there may be a promising idea here that LG's competitors will replicate? Can we next year see some of the big brands advertise the 'Ultronosic Hand ID'? By that time we might change our minds and what is now useless becomes innovation. Time will tell.

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