I like someone doing something different than the cut and paste designs from everyone else but are the LEDs actually genuinely useful?
First, why put your phone screen side down? That’s just an invitation for scratches. Second, what makes the LED patterns, etc more useful than the information that AOD screens can show or what I can get after a quick tap to wake my screen? Third, what about case use? Going to limit one’s options. I realize this is a personal issue but I’d never remember what pattern I’d attached to a specific notification—I never remembered what color LED blink I’d associated with a specific notification on my old Android phones. This seems no different.
Again, I like seeing someone put a bit of fun into a smartphone but it seems really gimmicky, something not actually solving a problem. Like you said, reminds me of the old LED notification lights but there’s a reason nobody uses them anymore.
Some of us have multiple phones and get just about every new phone released. Soemtimes somthing like LED lights on the back and used the way they were demoed in the video has a certain wow factor that differentiates it from other phones.
I mean after a while phones are just boring......i mean they all have similar if not the same features and useaage. They make calls and text and can tell you how to get somewhere. You can get your email and social media. If that is your needs then any phone will work.
So why do they need to provide anything else then? Its comes down to personal preferences and features sets.
I mean AOD is very useful IMHO when your phone is face up. But i also know people that put there phones face down or have pop socket case on their phones that make it impossible to put face up. Same thing for epopel that have designs on the back of their cases.......they want to disaply them and put their phones face down.
Personally...I would love love to see LED notification lights on phones. Then to be able to customise them in anyway I want.
I would love to be able to see a blue blinking LED light that tells me I have a text from my son. I know I should look at that now. Or a green blink light that says its from an unlnown person and it can wait.
I would find it useful to see a certain part of my phone light up (like in the demo) to tell me it is an email...but not just any email...but a email from a family member. Not just junk mail. Imagine if you could color code the LED lights based on contact prefernces.
I am sitting in my home office conducting audio only or video meetings and have my personal phone on silent.
It would be a great benefit to me in my usecases to be able to differeniate what kind of notification was on my phone.
Blue blinking light....text from my son. That is a priority notification. Blinking yellow email...no big deal. Blinking green text from my girlfriend....that one I better get if I know what is good for me LOL
In my eyes the blink LED lights are more helpful than AOD.
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