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Samsung Galaxy Tab Iris Tablet has been officially launched in India, it features an iris-recognition technology that is Aadhaar-complaint and STQC-certified under ‘Make for India’ initiative. The Samsung Galaxy Tab Iris price in India around Rs 13,499 and it is available in only Black color option.
The Galaxy Tab Iris tablet flaunts a 7.0-inch TFT LCD display with WSVGA resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. It is powered by a 1.2 GHz Quad-core Cortex A7 processor paired with 1.5GB of LPDDR3 RAM and comes with 8GB of internal storage which can also be expanded up to 200GB via microSD card.
This Samsung Tablet comes with a 5-megapixel autofocus primary camera on the back without LED flash and there is a an iris camera and subsystem. The Tablet runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop OS and packs in a 3600mAh battery out of the box.
On the connectivity front, it includes Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, microUSB 2.0, a 3.5 mm audio jack and FM Radio options. It measures 193.4×116.4×9.7mm and weighs around 327 grams.
Samsung Galaxy Tab Iris with an iris scanner that company called a ‘dual-eye scanner’. This feature will enable the consumers to access services remotely by embedding Aadhaar iris-biometric authentication capabilities. Samsung added, “This alignment will provide a more secure authentication and verification process and help the country transition away from traditional authentication processes.” It is also UIDAI compliant and hence it can be used for child enrolment program, where biometrics of the parent is used to authenticate children for Aadhaar enrolment.
Dr. Aloknath De, Corporate Vice President and CTO, Samsung India R&D, said:
“We’re excited to offer biometric-based services to the billion plus people enrolled in Aadhaar.Our India R&D team has made significant investments in New Biometric Technology research and we built this product leveraging our knowledge in hardware design, biometrics and security for a high-speed scan, greater accuracy and high reliability.
Along with the device, we are providing an Identity SDK for application developers to build financial inclusion, payments and authentication solutions. This will encourage our start-up ecosystem to rapidly build relevant apps and services. We strongly believe this overall offering will in turn strengthen government programs such as Jan-Dhan Yojana and E-Citizen services under the Digital India initiative.”
