I’d forgotten all about the notification LED. I wonder, could you flash a small part of an OLED display to achieve something similar while still being low power?
I loved it. I set up all these different colors to tell me what the priority was for checking. SMS was green, email was yellow or something, and FB (so cool back then) was blue. I really miss that, could just glance at it and know if it was worth risking pulling out your phone in school
Isn’t that what the “always on display” is supposed to be? I never use it but every phone I’ve seen in recent years offers the ability to turn the screen on to show notifications.
I’d forgotten all about the notification LED. I wonder, could you flash a small part of an OLED display to achieve something similar while still being low power?
I loved it. I set up all these different colors to tell me what the priority was for checking. SMS was green, email was yellow or something, and FB (so cool back then) was blue. I really miss that, could just glance at it and know if it was worth risking pulling out your phone in school
Miss this too. And you could customize the number of flashes so 3 rapid green flashes was so-and-so’s WhatsApp message.
Samsung S21 absolutely has a multicolour notification LED, but the only time it gets used is POST.
My problem with that is that I use a phone cover. Flashing a light on the side of the phone however could be great.
Isn’t that what the “always on display” is supposed to be? I never use it but every phone I’ve seen in recent years offers the ability to turn the screen on to show notifications.