These two features should be a MUST on every smartphone, regardless of platform:
- Notification LED: this one is so basic and obvious I cannot understand why it is left out most of the time: you should not have to wake up your phone only to see if you have any missed events (or worse in the iPhone’s case: you don’t even get a notification on your lock screen about new emails!). Therefore a notification LED should be obligatory, and it should blink for all relevant events on your phone that you would get a onscreen notification for as well, though it should be configurable so that you can define the apps/events of your liking and for how long you want it to blink (including ‘forever’).
- Profiles: i.e. the ability to the volume and ringtone (including for calendar alarms) for your phone through preset profiles. I used it a lot on my Symbian smartphones (which by the way come some predefined and useful profiles) and I always had close to 10 different profiles. You should be able to create and name as many profiles as you need (again, an old Symbian feature).
Now that’s not asking too much, is it?
saved so much time (and battery) with the LED notification on my n900…
I hear you….
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