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Originally Posted by Barnes
Pretty poor start.
Go on...
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Visual notification light?
Most Android and all Blackberry phones have them.
On my Blackberry I have an app that allows you to customize the color and blink duration and frequency for specific actions. Mail to a specific email address can blink one color, another a different color; text, BBM's and application notifications also different colors. Further, any address book contact can also be assigned a color/sequence. One look at the phone and you know what type of message you have, and/or from who. I rarely have the ringer on my phone for any alerts, I just have to look and see the color blinking to determine if its a message that may be urgent, or just some junk mail coming into my junk mail account.
Something easily done on an Iphone...to this point I am sure its a big faux pas in Apple design land to have a blinking light on the bezel to take away the cache of the industrial design that it took months to engineer and devise by the team assembled from across the world.
I have no doubt its coming at some point in some iteration, and Apple will try and pass it off as some breakthrough.