According to an interview of Dennis Woodside, former CEO of Motorola, the British newspaper The Telegraph, the depression that the Nexus 6 is in the back served to house the fingerprint reader that would serve to unlock the device, as already do similar systems are in Samsung and Apple devices.
Woolside indicates that the reason for the removal of the fingerprint reader of the final product was the fact that Apple have bought the company that manufactured. As the competitors in this market were not yet on the same technological level, Motorola and Google decided not to include this functionality in the new Nexus 6.
The company that the Woodside refers is called Authentec that was acquired by Apple in July 2012, which is too long to be a valid reason to justify the sensor removal. Another factor that causes some strangeness is that Motorola and Google have been doing tests with sensors coming from other manufacturers such as Synaptics.
One reason pointed to have been a decision to remove the sensor Nexus 6 can have to do with the fact that the models manufactured by other companies claimed that you swipe your finger on the reader and not just to touch him as with what is used in Apple devices.
This caused delays in development of API (Application Programming Interface) to read fingerprints that Google was doing in order to allow other software manufacturers could use this sensor in their apps. However, there are indications that Google continues the development of this API and that it may become available soon.
It Ars Technica
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