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I agree in that the lights on the back thing is not that useful. I miss my Nokia 3220 not only because it was a solid phone and its customizable experience - b
by Gualdrapo 3y ago
I agree in that the lights on the back thing is not that useful.
I miss my Nokia 3220 not only because it was a solid phone and its customizable experience - but mainly because its side lights.
I think I've told this before in here, but those side lights were not only cool - they were useful. You could tell when it was ringing wheter it was a call or a message just by looking at the light pattern. It was really useful when you needed to put it in silent mode or you could not hear the ringtone nor "feel" the vibration. Sometimes at night at crowded and noisy places I even could tell who was calling because the lights were shining through the pants pockets! You could saw the colored lights wether your phone was face-up or face-down.
So additional to the audible ringtone, the on-screen message and the vibration thing, the side lights worked as another way to let you know if anything was happening. Not that almost invisible tiny LED light of nowaday's phones, nor like in this phone where the lights are at its back (?), but an array of shining lights at the sides of your phone.
Granted, the process to customize those light patterns was a bit obscure (programming a couple of MIDI extra tracks along a sequence) but I could somehow do a Metallica's Hit the lights ringtone with its light sequence.
It's been like 18 years yet I still wonder why nobody has done something like that ever since with a modern phone.