To each their own as I thought it was useful on my BB, although a multicolored led that could be completely disabled would be welcome on a new iPhone.
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Will there ever be a *true* notification light?
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To each their own as I thought it was useful on my BB, although a multicolored led that could be completely disabled would be welcome on a new iPhone.
That's kind of selfish of you don't you think? Would it be to hard for you to disable it?
Didn't read all the posts, but the notification light on Android phones is pretty nice.
It harkens back to the Crackberry days when if you saw that red light flashing, you had a message. It is more efficient than unlocking your phone and opening up mail--maybe you have a message, maybe you don't.
Push email is great, but a notification light is really part of the push chain since the light being on means info comes to you rather than the other way around.
I'd argue that Apple doesn't have fully pushed email without the notification light (because phones are off more than they are on).
Bottom line is choice is not a bad option, but Apple does not give us choices. They tell us what we need. It's insulting to some and liberating to others.
It harkens back to the Crackberry days when if you saw that red light flashing, you had a message. It is more efficient than unlocking your phone and opening up mail--maybe you have a message, maybe you don't.
Push email is great, but a notification light is really part of the push chain since the light being on means info comes to you rather than the other way around.
I'd argue that Apple doesn't have fully pushed email without the notification light (because phones are off more than they are on).
Bottom line is choice is not a bad option, but Apple does not give us choices. They tell us what we need. It's insulting to some and liberating to others.
Of course it can. Change ringtone to something you like? Easy peasy. Text tone? No problem. Wallpaper? Make it my own! Notification light? I am stuck with it as it was out of the box!!!!
Michael
I had a notification LED on my windows mobile phones almost 7 years ago, and on my flip phones 10 years ago. A blinking efficient low power LED causes zero real world battery drain and costs less than a dime in quantity. Some of apples decisions are weird as hell. I guess if I still lived in Silicon Valley it might make more sense. Thank God I don't live there any more though.
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Now that I think about it in '98 my cell phone had a notification LED to let me know I had voicemail.
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Now that I think about it in '98 my cell phone had a notification LED to let me know I had voicemail.
Really? Even when I briefly tried an Android phone more than 3 years ago with Gingerbread or some similar dated (by now) version of Android I was able to configure the notification LED to my liking.
I get around that but having my phone in quiet mode during bed time hours. No LED flashing at 2am lighting up a whole room.
Apparently my sarcasm was not apparent enough. Of course you can configure the LED, or turn it off entirely. Which begs the question, why in the world would simply having it bother some people?
I can understand someone saying they would never use it. Fine. You don't have to. But to go as far as saying you "hate" it? To me that sounds like hating something just because the iPhone doesn't have it.
Michael
How would a small notification LED light that blinks if there are certain notification a battery killer? Seems like waking the screen to display a notification is more of a battery killer than that.
It's not. It's likely less then the screen lighting up for a few seconds when you get a notification even if it was flashing all day.
How is that any different than the iPhone's screen just turning on with the notification on the lock screen like it currently has...
The screen turns on and then turns off after a few seconds. If you aren't there and/or didn't see it then you have no way you have a missed notification without actually physically getting the phone and turning on the screen and looking at what's there. With a small multi-color LED notification light a light can blink for a notification so that if you glance at your phone at some point after a notification has come in (even if you aren't right next to the phone) and you would see that you have a missed notification, and perhaps depending on some color selection or something like that you would even have an idea of what kind of notification it is (a missed call vs. a missed text vs. a missed email, etc., based on settings that you might have set up).
oh, I see, I didn't realize that it the light stayed on. I thought it just blinked when u first got the notification...
i wouldn't mind if the home button's ring was a led light, just as long as it doesn't look like crap when it isn't on.
No you are not. Ever since I had my first Samsung flip phone back in 1987, I wanted to have an audible reminder for missed calls and messages on every phone I owned. When I upgraded to Treo, I installed a program to accomplish this.
IPhone, right from day one, was and still is miserable for notifications. Up until IOS 5, I jailbroke my phones just to use Intelliscreen for its audible reminders.
After IOS 5, Intelliscreen incorporated IOS 5's notifications and lost its audible reminder feature. Then I found Notifier+ to add audible reminders to my iPhone.
I cannot understand the logic of Apple for not having an audible reminder for missed calls. They may consider people with hearing disabilities and for those people, a lighted reminder works. But what about the visually impaired or blind? For them, an audible reminder is the only way that works.
One doesn't have to be visually impaired to appreciate audible reminders. I usually leave my phone in another room and get a call, that I miss. When I return to the same room, my phone across the room reminds me that I have a missed call. Or, sometimes in a noisy environment I don't hear my phone ringing. But I usually hear the audible reminder without taking my phone out of my pocket. A lighted reminder is no way as effective as an audible reminder IMO.
Yeah, this is exactly what I was hoping that ring was when I first saw it. Imagine a slowly pulsing ring of light around the home button, very discreet yet clearly visible and without messing with the design in any way. It could have been beautiful.
You're using it wrong.
Seriously, how many of you have said you use your phone from across the room or even other rooms?? Bizarre behavior. If it is so important to get notifications instantly, keep the phone with you. That's the intent of a cell phone, anyway. Or if it isn't that important, what are you whining about?
And this is regardless of whether or not you have an LED notification.
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Yea I guess you live attached to your phone, or perhaps it is implanted to your brain at birth so that you can never mistakenly walk away from it. That way you can even take it with you to the shower so that you never miss a call and never need to be notified at all.
Thanks for reminding us how to use a phone properly.
Thank you for reading 1/3 of my comment. That other 2/3 probably didn't mean anything at all, right?
