One aspect of my Android phone (AT&T SGN2) quite frustrates me. How it handles alarms and notifications.
If I put the phone on silent, I do not get alarms or notifications. This is not acceptable. If I have a calendar event set for 2pm, popping up an alert icon does nothing to help me not miss my meeting. If I set a timer for 30 minutes to alert me when the cookies are done baking, and all it does is vibrate. What good is that? And location reminders, if all it does is a tiny one blip vibration or show a finger with a string. How is that a reminder.
I confess, I may be COMPLETELY missing something. But just cause I do not want every single phone call or notification to make a sound, does not mean I don't want my alerts to sound.
And yes, I know I can change notification sounds in settings. But seriously, who the !@#$ wants their phone to sound for every email or Facebook message.
I should be able to denote an alarm that will sound. This shouldn't be too hard?
If I put the phone on silent, I do not get alarms or notifications. This is not acceptable. If I have a calendar event set for 2pm, popping up an alert icon does nothing to help me not miss my meeting. If I set a timer for 30 minutes to alert me when the cookies are done baking, and all it does is vibrate. What good is that? And location reminders, if all it does is a tiny one blip vibration or show a finger with a string. How is that a reminder.
I confess, I may be COMPLETELY missing something. But just cause I do not want every single phone call or notification to make a sound, does not mean I don't want my alerts to sound.
And yes, I know I can change notification sounds in settings. But seriously, who the !@#$ wants their phone to sound for every email or Facebook message.
I should be able to denote an alarm that will sound. This shouldn't be too hard?