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You need a flashing light to tell you that you have an email, or missed a call? Wow...

The ideal implementation would be a small LED light to the right of the ear speaker. It would look no different than the sensor to the right or above the ear speaker. It soemthing that can be turned off if you don't want it, it wouldn't increase the price of the iPhone, and it would increase the usefulness of the phone to many business users.

Can you explain how this would be a negative without insulting anyone.
 
Had a couple BB's back in the day with the flashing indicator. Turned it off, it was annoying. You need a flashing light to tell you that you have an email, or missed a call? Wow...

You're psychic?! WOW! Oh wait, you don't mind looking like a tool checking your screen all the time....I see.
 
You're psychic?! WOW! Oh wait, you don't mind looking like a tool checking your screen all the time....I see.

Don't need to. Vibrate for email, or texts, or calls. At night I have it set to ring/vibrate for calls and nothing else.

Oh wait, you lack common sense...I see.
 
In a way, we kind of sort of maybe possibly have an led notification light.

Settings--->General--->Accessibility---->LED Flash for Alerts

Similar but defiantly not the same as blackberry.
 
When the new iWatch is announced it will alert you with a visual notification and optional vibration.

Nice.

~I just made that up~
 
After having android phones as my first couple of smart phones, I do find the optional notification light pretty useful. The best idea I saw was integrating it into the square in the home button. It would add no extra visible holes near the earpiece (for the white version) and I think it would look very classy with the square slowly lighting up and down for notifications.
 
Don't need to. Vibrate for email, or texts, or calls. At night I have it set to ring/vibrate for calls and nothing else.

Oh wait, you lack common sense...I see.

Can't hear vibrate when I'm not in the room with the device. Who's missing the common sense?


Why do I have to answer these stupid responses over and over???

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Wow... 6 pages on this pointless subject


Skillz.

Yeah, why do people keep giving the same lame objections??
 
Can't hear vibrate when I'm not in the room with the device. Who's missing the common sense?


Why do I have to answer these stupid responses over and over???

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Yeah, why do people keep giving the same lame objections??

Some people think it's a good idea that they would find useful, and some people don't. However, the iPhone DOESN'T HAVE THIS FEATURE.

Move on....
 
Can't hear vibrate when I'm not in the room with the device. Who's missing the common sense?


Why do I have to answer these stupid responses over and over
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BC people think what apple says and does is what they really need.
 
Some people think it's a good idea that they would find useful, and some people don't. However, the iPhone DOESN'T HAVE THIS FEATURE.

Move on....

I've moved on, I have my iPhone 5. I'm only here to reply to your senseless objection.

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When the new iWatch is announced it will alert you with a visual notification and optional vibration.

Nice.

~I just made that up~

You gotta wonder if they've really just trashed the whole Nano as a watch idea or if they truly have something up their sleeve. I hope they do. In the meantime, (im)patiently waiting on my Pebble.
 
The ideal implementation would be a small LED light to the right of the ear speaker. It would look no different than the sensor to the right or above the ear speaker. It soemthing that can be turned off if you don't want it, it wouldn't increase the price of the iPhone, and it would increase the usefulness of the phone to many business users.

Can you explain how this would be a negative without insulting anyone.

I think the best way to do it is to use the same micro holes they drill into the MBP chassis, but all around the antenna band. So the whole edge of the phone glows through the antenna band when you have messages etc.
 
I think the best way to do it is to use the same micro holes they drill into the MBP chassis, but all around the antenna band. So the whole edge of the phone glows through the antenna band when you have messages etc.

I wouldnt like that at all, I do like the square of the home button as the LED notification idea though.
 
To those that think this is a stupid request, its not, some people like visual queues to things like email, etc.

I'm not personally a fan but as long as there is a way to turn it off I'm all good.
 
Can't hear vibrate when I'm not in the room with the device. Who's missing the common sense?


Why do I have to answer these stupid responses over and over???

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Yeah, why do people keep giving the same lame objections??

Macrumors is not a place to have constructive discussions anymore on Apple Products (especially the iPhone forum). 60% of the people come here because they blindly follow Apple on all things, 30% come here to justify their Android purchase and the rest of the 10% try to have meaningful discussions but can't because of all the immature mud slinging posts....

Fact is, if you have never had a Black Berry or an Android phone, you probably don't understand the value of an LED indicator. Frankly the indicator gives the owner a new found freedom of being able to distance yourself from looking at your phone and still know when you missed stuff at a glance. That's really not important though to the 13-22 age bracket that seem to spend most of their time here. They have nothing better to do but look at their phones all day.
 
Macrumors is not a place to have constructive discussions anymore on Apple Products (especially the iPhone forum). 60% of the people come here because they blindly follow Apple on all things, 30% come here to justify their Android purchase and the rest of the 10% try to have meaningful discussions but can't because of all the immature mud slinging posts....

Fact is, if you have never had a Black Berry or an Android phone, you probably don't understand the value of an LED indicator. Frankly the indicator gives the owner a new found freedom of being able to distance yourself from looking at your phone and still know when you missed stuff at a glance. That's really not important though to the 13-22 age bracket that seem to spend most of their time here. They have nothing better to do but look at their phones all day.

True, but useful or not the iPhone doesn't have this feature, so why keep on about it?
 
True, but useful or not the iPhone doesn't have this feature, so why keep on about it?

Yeah, why keep replying with the negative reasons why it SHOULDN'T have it when it already doesn't. Just accept that some of us wish it did and move on. Why argue the negative when the feature doesn't even exist???
 
True, but useful or not the iPhone doesn't have this feature, so why keep on about it?

Because this is a discussion forum and the OP opened a line of discourse as to why the iPhone does not have one.

Discussing something in a discussion forum. See how that works?
 
Yeah, why keep replying with the negative reasons why it SHOULDN'T have it when it already doesn't. Just accept that some of us wish it did and move on. Why argue the negative when the feature doesn't even exist???

Cool, well if you wish hard enough then perhaps you'll wake up in the morning and it will have appeared on your phone, by magic.
 
don't strain your brain too hard thinking about any other experience besides your own.

What if you work in a busy environment and leave your phone on a desk, then leave the room for a while, and while you were gone you missed a message and the ensuing vibrations? You make it sound as if the screen is always on...it's not. Some people don't have time to pick up their phone every time they come back from leaving the room.

Some people work in different environments. They might work with chemicals or in food preparation, requiring gloves. Maybe they put their phone on a shelf and can't reach out to touch it every few minutes.

A light would help these and many other people. Just because you don't require one doesn't mean others don't.

Why are all you anti-light people so adamant? If apple did add a light, it would make a lot of people happy. They would no doubt do it in a subtle if not invisible-when-off way. And they would let you turn if off completely, so why are all you knuckleheads wasting your bandwidth arguing against it? All you're doing is making yourselves look like lemmings. Take it from a fanboy...you are giving fanboys a bad name.


thank you!

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You're right, there's no dire need, and it seems to go against the overall Apple aesthetic, but I personally think that its a great idea. I know at work I keep my iPhone at my desk on silent (since I don't want it going off for the whole office to hear) and I end up pressing the home button to check if someone has texted me many, many times during the day. It would be nice if I could just glance over to it and see a tiny glowing light to see if I have any texts.


Does necessarily have to go against apple aesthetics. Make it invisible behind the color on the front of the iphone. When it lights up, it could be a very soft and not bright light. If you disable it you dont see it, if its enabled you would only see it when it pulses, and when it pulses it would be a soft light not something really sharp and bright.

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macrumors is not a place to have constructive discussions anymore on apple products (especially the iphone forum). 60% of the people come here because they blindly follow apple on all things, 30% come here to justify their android purchase and the rest of the 10% try to have meaningful discussions but can't because of all the immature mud slinging posts....

Fact is, if you have never had a black berry or an android phone, you probably don't understand the value of an led indicator. Frankly the indicator gives the owner a new found freedom of being able to distance yourself from looking at your phone and still know when you missed stuff at a glance. That's really not important though to the 13-22 age bracket that seem to spend most of their time here. They have nothing better to do but look at their phones all day.

bingo!

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Cool, well if you wish hard enough then perhaps you'll wake up in the morning and it will have appeared on your phone, by magic.

The reason it is good to keep talking about it and show disappointment with it not being on the iPhone 5 is that if enough people show that this is a feature that want/need you would think there would be more of a chance for it to be implemented on future generations of the iPhone. If no one says anything and just blows it off why would Apple EVER include it?

People keep talking about the features you want, you have a voice for a reason.
 
Cool, well if you wish hard enough then perhaps you'll wake up in the morning and it will have appeared on your phone, by magic.

If I wish hard enough perhaps you and your smart responses will dissappear. But I can only wish.
 
thank you!

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Does necessarily have to go against apple aesthetics. Make it invisible behind the color on the front of the iphone. When it lights up, it could be a very soft and not bright light. If you disable it you dont see it, if its enabled you would only see it when it pulses, and when it pulses it would be a soft light not something really sharp and bright.

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bingo!

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The reason it is good to keep talking about it and show disappointment with it not being on the iPhone 5 is that if enough people show that this is a feature that want/need you would think there would be more of a chance for it to be implemented on future generations of the iPhone. If no one says anything and just blows it off why would Apple EVER include it?

People keep talking about the features you want, you have a voice for a reason.

Do Apple read this forum?
 
Do Apple read this forum?

First you are implying that "Apple" is one person I guess?

If you do not think that at least some Apple employees (for leisure or for work) interact, or at least watch, what their consumers are saying online then I would bet that you are kindly mistaken.
 
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