This could be rather cool looking, knowing Apple it would likely take the same route as the Jonathan Ive-designed “Eve” in WALL•E — imagine the pulsing plant icon on her chest as an example. A slowly pulsing icon on the iPhone screen would be fantastic and useful, and I can’t understand why they didn’t do it from the start.

Ed, have you ever seen an iPhone?

At least on mine, I push the home button and any missed calls and received voicemail messages are noted in a box superimposed on the screen. It’s not even necessary to unlock the screen, let alone go into settings.

This is better for me than any “little red light” I’ve had on other cell phones, since I don’t need to unlock the phone to see whose calls I missed and whose messages are waiting.

ozz, is that what you got out of this post? See, many feel the best way to say that you have to activate the backlight is to actually write “activate the backlight.” Ed didn’t say anything remotely like that.

If you want to imagine what you think he was trying to say, more power to you. But what he wrote was “it requires turning on the phone and going into settings to retrieve the information.” Sounds pretty clear to me. And clearly wrong.

why the hell was this not thought of… such a basic feature that predecessor have… not even ‘smartphones’!!