Apple looks like it's about to get a lot of company in the market for smartphones equipped with fingerprint scanners. IHS has released new research this week projecting that the market for mobile fingerprint scanners is set to grow by more than 11-fold over the next four years. In all IHS expects that 45.7 million scanner-enabled smartphones will ship this year, a number that will explode to 525 million smartphones in 2017.
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