taillights and headlights are essential and standard on all cars. LED notification lights are not standard on all phones and they are quite still usable without them because of other methods of delivering notifications.
really? So Blackberries never used notification LED's? Or Sony's. Or Samsung's? Or Nexus devices? Or HTC phones? Or LG? You know, the phones that make up 80% of all smartphone sales worldwide.
The fact is, LED Notification is a standard on all smart phones. But since the iPhone isn't much of a smartphone, more of a feature phone with a touch display, it fits right in where it belongs.
Yet, a tacky gold iPhone will fit right in.
All that said, the Moto X does not have a notification LED, but their solution is absolutely perfect. I pull the phone out of my pocket and the screen pops on with my notifications. Put my phone on its wireless charger and it brings up the screensaver until a notification is received. Having the 'breathing' effect in the status bar is a nice touch. As long as you can see your phones display, from any reasonable distance, you will know if you have a notification. Although have a multi-coloired LED would have made this even better, but I'm guessing with all the wearable tech coming out in full force, this whole notification thing may become a moot point.
P.S. I fully expect Apple to copy and then attempt to patent MotoX's notification feature. Exactly what they did with Androids Notification Center and Blackberries Messenger service.
I see you took the same stance
Which certainly doesn't mean that LED notification lights as an overall concept don't represent a useful and fairly straightforward improvement (that has even already been implemented by majority of smartphones).I see you took the same stance
Ah, at least we are over that hill and more or less at the crux of it all. Hopefully they might do it, given that it is an improvement that makes sense.
I think that's something some people have been experiencing--various issues with Facebook notifications in general--but not everyone.
- 80% of worldwides sales belong to those smartphones because emerging markets are flooded with cheap handsets. I guarantee you there will be a shift in these figures once the iPhone 5C penetrates China and India next year.
- The gold color you speak of is tacky for us Americans but widely accepted in the rest of the world. I'm almost certain the gold color will go flying off the shelves compared to the black or white iPhone.
- The iPhone set the standard of what is today's smartphone. I'd hardly label it a feature phone.
- The LED notification indicator still has a serious flaw. It cannot determine the urgency of a missed event. It can only notifiy you that you have one. So like it or not you have to check the phone. I do agree with you on the wearable tech movement making this obsolete unless people want LED notification lights on their smartwatch for when they put their watch down?
- I haven't seen Moto's notification system. I'm sure if Apple "copies" it they will do a better job with it.
The whole point was to show that it is a useful feature and is an improvement that is fairly straightforward and is already being used on many smartphones (for years). The fact that some people might not use it or even like it doesn't change any of those facts, which is what most of that discussion was mainly about.
You are being deliberately obtuse or know very little about phones and/or smartphones.I see you took the same stance
