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They were a good indicator for notifications that are missed when you were away from phone.

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[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Just bought Galaxy XCover 6pro. Lost many features I had in my previous phone. Kept removable battery and headphone jack. Gained notification led.

Can't say I really missed it tho. I'd trade it for an optical image stabilizer.

[–] HungryKoala@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Samsung phones your whole screen flashes in a custom color and and animation, and after that you have your always on display. So they are no longer needed with OLED screens that can display it themselves

[–] zephyr@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems to me a waaay too inefficient indicator of "you have unread notifications"

[–] HungryKoala@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Idk why? I like it to see the clock on the always on display, but you can also change it so you just have a small red pixels lit up, to mirror the "notification led style". You can style the aod like you want on Android

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

The nothing phone has led glyph indicators on the back.

[–] peterpan520@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Modern smartphones hardly have any edges and therefore hardly any space for an LED at the notch. In addition, the pixels of AMOLED displays can be controlled individually, which allows displaying notifications well and consumes little power at the same time.

[–] LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

i am still mad they got rid of it on xiaomi note 10 pro.... i mean yhea you can activate a thing for show notification on the screen but slurp slurp the batery. (and future burn in)

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Why did LED notification lights silently got removed from phone?

What's the normal sound of removing feature from the phone?

On more serious note, this is why I have smart watch.

[–] mihnt@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

What's the normal sound of removing feature from the phone?

People bitching and complaining about it being removed.

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[–] ecks90@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My phone still has ghe LED but I turned off the feature long ago including the battery low and charge indicators. More annoying than useful.

[–] Lianrepl@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I hate the LED and I'm so glad my current phone doesn't have it. It's especially the charging indicator that bothers me because it's so bright at night

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