The Apple logo at the back of its products, especially on the iPhones have come to mean so much to core Apple fans. There are those who even would love to see the logo perform the added function of an LED-illuminated notification light and not just a brand identity. That feature may soon appear on future iPhones as a recent Apple patent suggests.

The patent was originally filed on September 18th, 2018 before the US Patent and Trademark Office (U.S.PTO).  The patent filing is titled “Electronic Devices With Adjustable Decoration”. The description talks about the use of a logo or other decoration on the casing of a phone to notify the user of an incoming call or SMS as well as alert to a calendar reminder, and even the activation of the camera. The patent describes how this would be achieved using sensors or input/output devices to “detect events.” There will be circuitry embedded inside that would control the illuminating logo. The patent also suggests the LED may come in several colours with separate colours for different notification types.

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We can’t say if this would be implemented in next year’s iPhone 12 but whenever it is, Apple will not be the first to do such on a smartphone even though the company’s MacBook had such feature in the past. Motorola recently implemented a notification LED light on the logo of the  Motorola One Zoom. However, except for the funky looks it brings to the logo, the efficiency may be called to question as you’ll only notice the blinking light when the phone is kept with the back facing upwards, something that doesn’t happen so often.

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Concept phones are amazing. Though most times they feature designs the world is not ready for at the moment of release. Or at other times, designs that tend to be quite unusual or even bordering on being impracticable. But we love them all the same and this iPhone 8 concept is an example.

Last year, there was a rumor that the “Moto dimple” would double as a fingerprint scanner in the Moto M. I was particularly thrilled about it because the dimple was one of my favorite designs of the Moto G and Moto X series.  Sadly, the Moto M didn’t have its fingerprint scanner embedded under the dimple. This iPhone 8 concept aims at a similar design but instead of a fingerprint scanner, it is putting the rear camera under the Apple logo. The concept design was created by Iskander Utebayev.

Placing the camera under the Apple logo might or might not have been considered by Apple itself but one thing we are sure about is that singular design change will raise the cost of the iPhone. The reason is because you will need a larger piece of sapphire glass to cover the lens. It is also hard to tell if moving the camera to that position will offer any advantages over the currently used position but the bottom line is the design doesn’t look bad.

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The rest of Iskander Utebayev’s concept phone features some of the design features present in phones already such as a curved display. It also features a separated dual-tone LED flash.

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