Xie Wenjuan (L), UI director of the smartphone software development department of Gome, one of China’s major home appliance retailers, explains the iris function on a Gome K1 smartphone to a visitor at the company’s Gome smartphone marketing fair in Shenzhen on Friday. Gome unveiled Friday China’s first smartphone featuring iris scanner technology. With the K1 series, Gome, a latecomer to the smartphone market, aims to snatch a market share of the mid-priced segment of the already fierce home market that is dominated by Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi.Cathy Mo