SaucePolicy
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People still have home phones? I haven't had one since I moved out of my parents house ten years ago.They need to add function to call your home phone to alert you that you get some notifications in your mobile phone.
People still have home phones? I haven't had one since I moved out of my parents house ten years ago.They need to add function to call your home phone to alert you that you get some notifications in your mobile phone.
Not possible. I'm surprised so many members here don't know what can and can't be done by devs...
This would have to be implemented by Microsoft.
But I don't even know that this is possible given the hardware: since the buttons are part of the digitizer, if the LEDs are on the same control circuit then the screen would have to be on for this to work. Which is not an option.
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I have to agree... Nevertheless, it is a great idea and it worked great on old symbians.
While this is probably not possible with the current hardware, nothing prevents MS from putting something like this in the guidelines for future smartphones.
And what constitutes a notification? That's the big problem and this is why they probably didn't release a notification center. To run more usability tests to see how the people use their windows phones. An email is a notification but when? When received in the phone app or in a third party email app? A sms is a notification but how about my whatsapp im message is it also a notification? Microsoft apps mostly never did stuff that 3rd party apps could not do(desktop side or Modern ui stuff: wp8 w8). And if they would do they would surly be bashed.
So making a light blink on all notifications will only invite spam. Look at all the android games and apps that spam your notification center. And opting out notifications is something that no one is sure that is easy enough and usable enough for new users. So you could get this selected behaiviour for only select oem apps(phone, mail, sms) and this will create a storm
The notification center problem will be sorted by the microsoft and I'm sure it will be a beautiful solution. Look what they did with the gestures in windows 8 and how much usability tests they made just to understand how people use a product so they can make a good user experience.
Honestly, I wouldn't be so optimistic and I don't think a notification center doesn't exist because "they want it to be perfect". Personally, I find that a solution similar to the "lock screen notification" would be perfect: only MS apps in there as default, but you can add more apps later.