Easily notification light.
People always say “oh, it’s totally obsolete with always on displays”.
But with a notification light I could focus on other stuff and the blinking light got my attention better. With the AOD, I always catch myself glancing at my phone.
Also, the light’s color clearly indicated which app caused the notification. I had White for calls, Green for Whatsapp, Yellow for the ebay app, Red for GMail and so on.
“You can do all that with an OLED screen! It only lights up the pixels that-”
Can you, though? All apps that I tried were utter garbage. Buggy performance, very battery hungry and very cumbersome to configure. I don’t know if custom firmwares actually have that feature in a usable state nowadays, as I cannot root my phone anymore without losing core functionalities like online banking.
Yeah, everything tends to go to shit with time. I miss my Galaxy S2.
I’ve honestly had no issues with Holey Light on my devices since the notification LED went away. Used it on two phones now and haven’t noticed much battery life loss and haven’t had any bugs or configuration issues in a very long time. It is a shame the feature isn’t just built into every device though.
Easily notification light. People always say “oh, it’s totally obsolete with always on displays”. But with a notification light I could focus on other stuff and the blinking light got my attention better. With the AOD, I always catch myself glancing at my phone. Also, the light’s color clearly indicated which app caused the notification. I had White for calls, Green for Whatsapp, Yellow for the ebay app, Red for GMail and so on. “You can do all that with an OLED screen! It only lights up the pixels that-” Can you, though? All apps that I tried were utter garbage. Buggy performance, very battery hungry and very cumbersome to configure. I don’t know if custom firmwares actually have that feature in a usable state nowadays, as I cannot root my phone anymore without losing core functionalities like online banking.
Yeah, everything tends to go to shit with time. I miss my Galaxy S2.
I’ve honestly had no issues with Holey Light on my devices since the notification LED went away. Used it on two phones now and haven’t noticed much battery life loss and haven’t had any bugs or configuration issues in a very long time. It is a shame the feature isn’t just built into every device though.
You can. The technology is good but like many things the implementations are often kinda shyte