Samsung brings iris-recognition feature on Galaxy Tab Iris at Rs 13,499

BANGALORE, INDIA: Samsung India today launched its Galaxy Tab Iris featuring iris-recognition technology at a price of Rs 13,499.

The device is Aadhaar-compliant and STQC-certified. Galaxy Tab Iris is yet another Make for India innovation from Samsung.

Embedded in a secure device, the advanced iris-recognition technology will provide an integrated solution that will help to solve the hassles of using separate devices for biometric identification.

It will provide cashless and paperless services in various applications such as banking, eGovernance services such as passport, taxation, healthcare and education. 

"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,” said Dr. Aloknath De, Corporate Vice President & CTO, Samsung India R&D.

Samsung is 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.

The Android Lollipop-based comes with a SIM card slot, and sports a 7-inch WSVGA (1024x600 pixels) display. It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core SoC, coupled with 1.5GB of LPDDR3 RAM.

Besides dual-eye scanner, the tab sports a 5-megapixel rear autofocus camera, and comes with 8GB of inbuilt storage that's expandable via microSD card (up to 200GB).