Samsung's Galaxy S26 comes with an unexpected fingerprint scanner upgrade
…with the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S24 , one would hope that this Improve accuracy feature will land on those devices with the upcoming One UI 8.5 stable update. But with that…
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