Some variation of a notification LED light has long been in the Sony product pipe. From a small circular indicator in the corner of the Z3 to the more flashy bar in the Xperia S, notification LED lights allow you to easily know if there is something you’ve missed on your phone without needing to power up the display to find out. At first glance, it seemed like this was gone with the Xperia X – and you would be hard pressed to see one in the above photo.

Luckily Sony hasn’t forgotten about the little feature though it’s now been placed in a rather unique spot. Details and a photo after the jump.

Instead of opting to build the LED light under the glass or in any particular corner which can make the engineering of it, no matter how minor, more difficult, Sony has opted to stick their notification indicator in the phone’s ear piece. As you can see from the photo below, when a notification is received, a small green LED light will appear, indicating something missed. It’s unknown at this point if the LED light supports different colors to indicate different types of missed content or if green is the only indicator.

I’ve seen several videos from different outlets and they all include same green LED light, so I’m leaning towards only one type of notification but with the phones still being months away from release, anything could change.

Discuss:

Do you like where Sony has placed the notification LED light? Is this something that’s even of use to you?

[Via IT Media]