Since there is not an LED, what do you use for notification of urgent items?

[reverberlayed]

I probably wouldn't use an LED notification if the iPhone had it, but I can see why some would want it. My phone lays face up on my desk at work all day and I can freely check it. Outside of work I can turn it off of silent mode and hear the notification. Works for me.

 

[mib1800]

It just dawned on me as I was prodded in the arm! Our office secretary hassles me when I don't respond to some important emails or when I miss meetings and if I had a notification light I would have less of an excuse. She is my notification light and a lot prettier

You are so lucky. Can you put the secretary in your pocket?

 

[mercuryjones]

Who's telling you it's wrong? It's fine if you don't want to use an LED. What I see going on mostly in this thread is the con-LED group telling everyone else that it's not useful at all because their limited or lack of experience with the feature tells them otherwise. (And by limited I mean limited to their personal usage and circumstances).

You have your LED (if Apple ever implements it) and I'll keep my notifications. I'd much rather push the home button and see exactly what the notifications are, rather than try and guess if that call is important via the light.
That's my thought on the issue.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

You are so lucky. Can you out the office secretary in your pocket?

Yeah it's called an 'out of office reply' to all my emails and instructions not to contact me at the weekend, plus my wife wouldn't appreciate it

 

[Geckotek]

You have your LED (if Apple ever implements it) and I'll keep my notifications. I'd much rather push the home button and see exactly what the notifications are, rather than try and guess if that call is important via the light.
That's my thought on the issue.

I want both...no reason why we shouldn't both have what we want.

That's my thought.

 

[opfreak]

You have your LED (if Apple ever implements it) and I'll keep my notifications. I'd much rather push the home button and see exactly what the notifications are, rather than try and guess if that call is important via the light.
That's my thought on the issue.

thing is, that if you had an led, and it was NOT blinking.

You wouldn't have to push any buttons.

 

[nilk]

Solution-

1). Exert the extreme amount of effort to push the sleep wake button

2). Sell me your iPhone since thousands of us still don't have one, and go back to your primitive device.


I'd go with option 2

You want to buy his iPhone 5? I'm pretty sure there is plenty of supply of those if you really want one.

 

[mercuryjones]

thing is, that if you had an led, and it was NOT blinking.

You wouldn't have to push any buttons.

Here's the deal that you guys don't seem to understand - if I walk away from my phone for 30 minutes, I will ALWAYS have some kind of notification. It's just the way I work. So, your LED doesn't help me at all, since I'm going to have to look at my notifications anyway.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

thing is, that if you had an led, and it was NOT blinking.

You wouldn't have to push any buttons.

Id rather feel sad about not getting any messages while Im quickly checking on a couple websites on my phone browser while I'm looking at it.

As opposed to getting no messages and just sitting there, alone, with nothing to do.

 

[cmichaelb]

I never considered this an issue. Set the phone to vibrate and leave the screen face up.

I can see why the LED would be useful though. Apple could put the LED on the other side of the front speaker opposite the front facing camera.

 

[Geckotek]

Here's the deal that you guys don't seem to understand - if I walk away from my phone for 30 minutes, I will ALWAYS have some kind of notification. It's just the way I work. So, your LED doesn't help me at all, since I'm going to have to look at my notifications anyway.

Once again, it may not help you but it would help many others.

 

[Arran]

What I see going on mostly in this thread is ...

And what I see is a market for this book