sze5003
Lifer
- Aug 18, 2012
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The more I think about that the more irritated I get. Google had a notification LED in the GNex, N4, N5, N7 2013, and N10. And all of a sudden its ditching that? Over the years Samsung added LED notifications on its phone and so have many other OEMs. Now the reference Nexus is losing that?
It's also somewhat annoying that Google never really embraced the LED notifications and was always reliant on 3rd party apps. Like what's the point of just flashing white for EVERY Google notification? It would've been nice in the past if in the notifications screen on Gmail, Hangouts, we not only got to select ringtone, and check a vibrate button, but also select a LED notification color. It seems like only 3rd party apps did that.
But now we're losing all that. Are we going to get any customization on the N6? I hope so. Like a blacklist/whitelist option like Motorola has.
I just feel like the LED notification was always a long ignored feature of phones that came with Android phones, but never got its proper setup screen in the OS. Its sad to see it go away now when it had a good potential and still does even in the face of Active Notifications.
Just my 2 cents, but I prefer a small dot lighting up in the corner of my phone rather than my whole screen which is more distracting. My friends with Moto Xs end up just putting their phones face down at meetings or coffee shops and ignore any notifications, but then what's the point? Having both features would've been nice.
It's odd that they did not include it I agree. But for me the led was sort of annoying. On my htc one its very small. I check my phone enough that I don't even bother to look at the light.
It is also odd third party apps had color adjustments but stock did not. I prefer active notifications and the whole screen is not supposed to light up only the notification icon itself. They mention there are a lot of settings in the video for notifications.
I hope it takes advantage of the amoled screen. Overall the phone looks great and I can't wait to try it out. Finally one phone I can use on any carrier.