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Why the hell doesn't the home button blink for notifications yet?
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You 13% that do not want the notification light can turn the ********ing light OFF!
Most of us want one, as do I!
You can see my light on my Blackberry in the sunlight yet it will not wake you up as some of you whimps suggest! Try sleeping with your eyes closed!
Most of us want one, as do I!
You can see my light on my Blackberry in the sunlight yet it will not wake you up as some of you whimps suggest! Try sleeping with your eyes closed!
I do think a LED light for notifications is a great idea. But i would much rather like it on the opposite side of the front camera. And a small one, an Apple-like-one if one was to say so.
A bliping home button seems way to gimmicky, at least for my taste.
And it doesnt make sense from a design/function point of view, the home button itself isnt associated with notifications. Its a home button.Example: The blinking home button would make sense if, when pressed, would take you into notifications center.
A blinking home button is confusing and doesnt make sense.
A bliping home button seems way to gimmicky, at least for my taste.
And it doesnt make sense from a design/function point of view, the home button itself isnt associated with notifications. Its a home button.Example: The blinking home button would make sense if, when pressed, would take you into notifications center.
A blinking home button is confusing and doesnt make sense.
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I was just looking up posts on this. I would love for them to have a simple notification light like Blackberrys do. Those don't come close to "keeping you up at night." And you can set your phone down and see from a distance if anything went off.
It'd also be great, but probably asking for WAY too much out of a new "Apple Innovation," for it to have custom settings - such as only blink for texts and missed calls, certain apps, no apps, etc.
It'd also be great, but probably asking for WAY too much out of a new "Apple Innovation," for it to have custom settings - such as only blink for texts and missed calls, certain apps, no apps, etc.
A blinking home button isn't confusing at all. Putting it next to the earpiece and camera on a flat face however, doesn't seem right. Giving the home button another purpose, as well as blinking to intuitively tell the owner to press it, makes perfect sense.
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I'd go a step further and make that LED display different colors according to what kind of notification is waiting for you. For example:
Red for texts, blue for emails, green for missed calls, and white for 3rd party apps.
If you have more than one kind of notification, such as 2 texts and an email, you'd get a flashing sequence of Red, Red, Blue over and over until you press the home button.
And of course, you'd be able to customize these colors to whatever kind of notification you want.
I had a Palm Treo that used to do this, and I loved it. No it was not too bright and didn't cause battery to drain. It was more like an soft white illumination slow blinking, which was very pleasing to the eye and not distracting at all. If Apple can make the white square outline illuminate, I would be very pleased.
Some people here are ridiculous. Most of the people here love Apple products and think they do a great job designing them... someone suggests a new feature and a few of you all of a sudden think if Apple were to implement it that it would be awful. You don't think Apple can figure out how to get it right?
I would want a MacBook pro type sleep light cut into a corner of the side frame. I often put my phone down face up and face down.
I can only imagine what the jailbreak community would do with something like that
I didnt realize the iPhone 5 was out yet...
Why do we need a blinking LED right under the display? Surely if there was a notification you would see the screen light up? Your phone already rings, vibrates, lights up, and repeats that up to 10 times for texts.
How can it be that you miss all these alerts but a little light would magically get your attention?
Maybe it could be connected to your heart... 2 skipped beats for a text, 3 for email, stop your heart til you answer a call. is that enough to get peoples attention?
The bit about the heart was my attempt at humour, but seriously I think they have the alerts covered.
How can it be that you miss all these alerts but a little light would magically get your attention?
Maybe it could be connected to your heart... 2 skipped beats for a text, 3 for email, stop your heart til you answer a call. is that enough to get peoples attention?
The bit about the heart was my attempt at humour, but seriously I think they have the alerts covered.
I don't really mind not having a notification light on the iPhone, but if Apple were to implement one this is how I think it would be done: The light would come from the little square on the home button and rather than blinking it would pulse slowly like the light on a MacBook Pro in sleep mode. It would just be a slow white pulse. Nothing more.
Ever think outside the box? The phone doesnt have to vibrate, ring, light the whole screen up or repeat it... At times when I can see the phone I would rather have the indicator come on then waste battery on vibrate and lighting the screen up and ringing.
I don't need my phone to glow and blink like a UFO, but I think a single LED placed in the home button (or anywhere, really) would have its benefits. And for those who don't want it, a simple System Preference could make it neigh invisible.
Of course, didn't you see my heartstopping idea?
And how would the phone know when it's in sight? That would need ringer profiles to be an efficient option, which the phone doesn't have (and isn't getting for a year at least)
It's nice to imagine these things but it's another thing to find a way to implement them practically.
Of course, didn't you see my heartstopping idea?
And how would the phone know when it's in sight? That would need ringer profiles to be an efficient option, which the phone doesn't have (and isn't getting for a year at least)
It's nice to imagine these things but it's another thing to find a way to implement them practically.
Maybe have an option for the Silent/Ringer button to perform the indicator instead of silent or ringer. Im sure something would show up in Cydia
iOS 5 will include the ability to utilize the camera's flash for notifications.
http://9to5mac.com/2011/06/06/little-big-feature-iphone-flash-on-calls-and-alerts/
http://9to5mac.com/2011/06/06/little-big-feature-iphone-flash-on-calls-and-alerts/
Which word?
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I'm aware, but that's stupid. It makes much more sense to put it on the home button, and I can see Apple doing that with iPhone 5.
Ericssons used to have this before they got in bed with Sony. Annoyed the hell out of me when it was on my bedside table. I do like the option to flash the camera flash when ringing in iOS 5. very usefull in a noisy workshop..
I doubt Steve would approve, he famously hated the sleep lights on the cinema display and iMac.
I doubt Steve would approve, he famously hated the sleep lights on the cinema display and iMac.