Just to clarify thing, FaceID isn't the same tech as what we've had on Android.

In Android, it's based on image recognition. That's the reason it was so easy to bypass with a high resolution photograph.

In FaceID, it projects thousands of dots on your face and creates a depth inclusive map which is used for verification. That's the reason why it's supposed to work even if you have glasses on, etc

So please let's stop with the comparison

I really want to see an iPhone X in action, just to checkout that new processor, other than that if its not a bigass computer with amazing hardware I'm not interested :p

@gitpush have to wait for a rich friend to get the phone before I can mess around with it. It's freaking expensive here in India

@SubhrajyotiSen same here, even if I am able to buy it I wont spend 1000$ for a phone, if it was a laptop then ok, it gives me a lot in return, but a phone just to talk and send few WhatsApp msgs ...etc. more than 300$ is too much in my book

It's all image recognition. A high enough resolution photo will still pass because any good photo captures the depth of the scene too...

@demortes I haven't read about the tech in FaceID, but it could be scanning for actual depth, not perceived depth meaning that yiu'd have to have a high resolution 3D print, not a high resolution 2D print of a face to unlock it which is getting in the realm of "well so what if the person guesses my 30 character long random password or actually manages to get it via sniffing my traffic or something"... There's always a way to hack, nothing is foolproof.
I do prefer fingerprints to face scanning, but neither is perfect... And Apple is terrible :)

Does 'having one IR cam and one normal cam' help over having two normal front cameras?

It actually sounds fairly similar to Windows Hello's implementation on Surface Pro hardware.

@alanaktion also on lumia 950

Just to clarify, I'm not rooting for FaceID here. I am and always will be primarily an Android user.

Don’t forget, it also uses infrared so it sees through beards and makeup

Did the photo thing to test the image recognition. Didn't work. So IDK. Granted it was a cell phone pic and screen.