2 September, 2015

Yesterday, Nextbit, a San Francisco based start-up building transformational mobile experiences, announced its "Cloud first, design forward" Android smartphone Robin*. Nextbit is led by former Google executive Tom Moss and backed by Google Ventures and Accel Partners.

Jörgen Lantto, CEO of FPC, comments: "NextBit is an up and coming smartphone OEM with an interesting business model and we are proud that NextBit selected FPC1145 for Robin, its first smartphone. FPC1145 supports 360 degree finger rotation capability, fast response time and industry leading 3D image quality, and its small size enables placement on the side of the smartphone".

Tom Moss, CEO of NextBit, comments: "In our endeavors to provide the consumer with the ultimate user experience for Robin, we consider embedding a touch fingerprint sensor a mandatory feature. FPC1145 allows us to place the fingerprint sensor embedded with the power button, maintaining our look and feel with no buttons on the front. We are happy to deliver a great user experience for secure user verification with FPC1145″.

For more information, please contact:

Jörgen Lantto, President and CEO Fingerprint Cards AB (publ), +46-(0)31-60 78 20, investrel@fingerprints.com

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*Please also refer to earlier Press release today; FPC's touch fingerprint sensors in multiple smartphone announcements

About Fingerprint Cards AB (publ)
Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) is a high tech and listed company which develops, produces and markets biometric technology that through the analysis and matching of an individual's unique fingerprint verify the person's identity. A secure and convenient user experience is thus made possible, beyond keys and pins. The FPC technology offers world class advantages and include unique image quality, extreme robustness, low power consumption and complete biometric systems. With these advantages and in combination with low production costs the technology may be implemented in large volume products as smartphones, tablets and biometric cards where these demands are extremely high. FPC's technology have user cases from a number of applications.

The information was issued for publication on September 2, 2015, at 8:10 a.m.


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