Pixel 11 may revive old-school notification LED with ‘Pixel Glow’

the next Pixel phone You may get a Remember Us feature None LED glyphs And old school Android phones: LED indicator for notifications – just more interesting.

What appears to be a new feature called Pixel Glow was reported earlier on Monday by 9to5Google. The name was discovered in the latest Android 17 beta 4, which was released on April 16. Pixel Glow is described as using “subtle light and color on the back of your device to notify you of important activity when Face down“At its core, it’s a fancy notification LED.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It appears that Pixel Glow will work in certain situations, such as when a favorite contact is calling. Unsurprisingly, it appears that the feature may also work when you interact with it Gemini is hands-free.

While 9to5Google says the feature has been mentioned previously Android beta and canary versions Under the codenames, the latest Android 17 build has given us an official name for this feature. It appears that this feature will appear for the first time in the upcoming Pixel 11 phone, which we expect to be announced later this year, after a few months. Google I/O in May.

The exact location where the LED array can be placed is anyone’s guess at this point. Shows the first CAD we’ve seen of the benchmark The Pixel 11 showed off a very similar designWhich suggests that the LEDs could be located in the now all-black camera strip, the ‘G’ logo on the back, or perhaps the feature will be reserved for the Pixel 11 Pro models only.

Apparently, the Pixel Glow feature will also work on laptops. This coherence is also not surprising, as we already know that Android and ChromeOS will be integrated Into a single operating system at some point to provide a powerful operating system for desktop and laptop.