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Future iPhones May Have Always-On Display

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OMG! Ponies!
11/20/08

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The Blackberry solved the problem ever so easily with the blinking LED. You knew if you had coverage, messages and if your Bluetooth was enabled.
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colinv12
11/20/08

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may I just say I own an iPhone.

On a side note, to the people who don't own one yet, or who do not have AT&T, why bash the phone, when you no there are rarely any others that are better. We have all read the reviews and seen stories on here how, the phone is either equal to or beats phones that have just come out. So if your gonna hate go hate on a crappy Nokia or something, or better yet; dump your crappy T-mobile plan and get AT&T, Sprint, Verizon either one.

Unless you have a G1, than I understand. You want T-mobile, but if not chunk the deuce to the T.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/20/08

@colinv12: T-Mo user here. Fuck AT&T. That is all.
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rcast1986
11/20/08

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: If you weren't my friend already, that would have earned you said friendship.

Instead you get...meh I dunno. A coupon for a free hug.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/20/08

@rcast1986: Hot damn. And here I was paying for the others like a sucker.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/20/08

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My N95 and most Symbian based Nokia phones already do this. The screen is very dimly lit with a floating bar that shows the time, date and any text/voicemail messages that you have...
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Kaiser-Machead
11/20/08

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Sounds nice, but seems like this could easily be substituted for a blinking LED in the earpiece, much like other phones have now. It wouldn't need to be specific (and in the case of cutouts, wouldn't be anyway), just be an alert that you have an incoming message.
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twitzgall
11/20/08

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine:

Innovate vs the same...why not have them try something new? whatever, seems ok..not a deal breaker tho
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Kaiser-Machead
11/20/08

@twitzgall: I suppose you're right that it would be a bit vanilla, but unless the info it displays is any more useful than a single blinking light, it'll be kind of stupid.
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nachobel
11/20/08

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while neato, sometimes I get angry when my phone screen won't shut off. So much light! And I find pushing a button to see what's going on usually doesn't mean life or death.
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qbrad
11/20/08

@nachobel: So what do you do about that lighted Apple logo on your MBP that shows everyone you have a MBP? In Starbucks. Cos you're a writer.
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