When I learned about this thing via Reddit and its LEDs thing, I thought it was going to be something like the first mobile phone I ever had, a Nokia 3220. Tho

When I learned about this thing via Reddit and its LEDs thing, I thought it was going to be something like the first mobile phone I ever had, a Nokia 3220. Those LEDs at the sides of the 3220 were not only beautiful but really useful. As I use to carry the phone in my pants pockets, when I was at a crowded or noisy place at night couldn't hear it when it rang - but nevertheless could see it was ringing because the light went through the pocket! So you could even personalize the ringones for each contact and that stuff and you could tell who was calling you without hearing the ringtone, just seeing the phone from afar. Albeit you could personalize that light pattern via MIDI - if I recall correctly, each LED was controlled via a special MIDI instrument so you needed to lay those along the other instruments in a MIDI composing software and 'compose' your pattern, which wasn't going to be hearable but visible. The process was rathing tricky for me 'cause sometimes it didn't work for whatever reason, but I could manage to get a couple of tunes working with my own LED patterns, one which was Metallica's "Hit the lights" (no pun intended). That, and the fact you could design your very own covers for the transparent hard plastic at the back of the phone, made it in retrospect the pinnacle of phone personalization. Or at least as what I've known; things went a little downhill from there and, as mentioned at first, I thought this thing was going to be the difference and be something similar as that ol' good 3220; was even imagining it could come with its own LED pattern composing app or some stuff like that. But really I can't see anything useful about the monochrome LEDs at the back which, as some of you mentioned, people will cover with a non-transparent cover anyway.