Every smartphone has a built-in flashlight, but back in the day, many Android phones featured another hardware light: an LED that shined whenever you received a new notification or alert—a gentle ...
Android 14 Developer Preview 2 includes a “Flash notifications” function that will let Pixel owners emulate the long-lost notification LED in the upcoming build. One of the most notable features that ...
As many of you know by now, the Android 14 Developer Preview 2 is out. We’ve already covered the news, but new bits and pieces are constantly popping up, like the one we’re here to talk about. Android ...
An Android Police contributor, Kevin is a former editor and writer for News UK, WIRED UK, Which?, The Telegraph, Den of Geek. Samsung owners will be familiar with aodNotify, as a software solution for ...
Do you miss the days when Android phones had a front-facing LED for notifications? If so, do you wish to get it on your current Android smartphone? Well, it turns out you can get a notification LED on ...
We all have a favorite phone. The one that brings up emotions and memories. For me, that phone is the HTC One (M7). I’ve used plenty of smartphones over the years from various brands, including ...
Notification LEDs aren’t exactly Android smartphones’ most exciting accoutrement, but they’re undeniably useful — it’s a lot harder to ignore a blinking diode, after all, than an impermanent buzz or ...
The OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro do not have a notification LED light, but you can fix that, sort of. There is an app in the Google Play Store that allows you to add a notification LED light to the OnePlus 8 ...
Samsung is experimenting with a LED strip on the hinges of its future foldable phones. The strip would act as a notification light but also a chief, defining design characteristic for Samsung’s ...