Shortly after the Russian announcement of the “anniversary” of flagship smartphone Xiaomi Mi 8, was discovered one unpleasant feature. As it turned out, recognition of the user’s face to unlock the phone is not working.
Official sales of the Xiaomi Mi 8 in Russia will begin on August 8. Version 6+64GB will be presented at the price of 29 990 rubles.
According to the Russian representative office of the company, this feature will be available in next firmware versions. How could update journalists TJournal, the problem is that the system hasn’t been tested to the end faces of the Europeans. After completing the tests, the function of face unlock activate software update shell MIUI.
In China the Xiaomi Mi 8 sold since the beginning of June, and the facial recognition system was debugged on the Asians and the Europeans were for her “one person”.
It is unlikely that the update will be ready for the start of sales on August 8. In any case, the smartphone can be unlock using the fingerprint scanner.