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Higher end Smartphones have anyway always on displays. And the led needs screenspace - which should be maximized. That's why the notch on phones etc. was introduced.
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.
And there it is, not only is it cheaper to produce a phone with less features, you've been given a reason to make another purchase to replace the now missing feature
(Not saying you don't need a smart watch, I have one too and it's much better than an led! Just the removal of a feature to make something else paid seem more attractive is a common one now)
This doesn’t really make much sense in this context though.
All iPhones have the feature built-in by using the camera’s flash LED. Androids have the same camera flash LEDs, but the software side simply doesn’t use them for this purpose. There’s no “cheaper production” here since the components are already there. Dedicated notification lights are gone, but the flash LED is efficient enough to serve the same purpose these days
Pretty sure you can still enable the flash LED on Galaxy phones under accessibility but I don’t have one to check - not sure about other android phones but I’m sure there’s a third party app that does it anyway.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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