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www.appleinsider.com — Apple has conceptualized a means of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhone's displays even when the handset is locked and the backlight turned off, a new company filing shows.

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Apple Patent Reveals Dual Backlit iPhone Status Indicators
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... Seeing as how Apple is trying to avoid having to turn the LCD screen on, the backlit status indicators could not be powered by the primary LCD’s backlight. For this reason, Apple wants to introduce a secondary dual backlight system. As AppleInsider explains, this secondary backlight would be placed behind the primary LCD’s backlight in order to power the light status indicators, which need to be on when the LCD is not. ...

Future iPhones May Have Always-On Display [Apple Patent]
Gizmodo — ... But of course, you know that this may be something completely different from what the diagram shows, since the drawings included in patents always seem to be drawn by a monkey on drugs. At least, I want to believe this thing is more like the illustration I did, because if it's just little icons—like every other single cheap clamshell cellphone out there—I won't be very excited. [Apple Insider] ...

Apple patent app describes ‘always-on’ iPhone status indicators
MacDailyNews — ... implementation of a dual backlight system, where a secondary, low-power backlight system would be positioned behind the primary backlight system. The always-on light provided by the secondary backlight system could then be projected through one or more transparent or semitransparent regions of the primary backlight system to reach the display even when the primary backlight is turned off," Lane reports. More in the full article, including Apple's patent application illustrations, here .

Apple Developing Always-On Backlight for iPhone
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... The company this week published a 24-page patent detailing a dual-backlight system, so that in addition to the pre-existing backlight, a second low-powered backlight would always be on displaying e-mail, text and call notifications. Positioned behind the primary backlight, the second always-on backlight would project through transparent layers. ...

Apple may be working on always-on status indicators for iPhone
Macworld — ... hands of consumers. That Apple is looking into ways to add more status indicators to iPhone is certainly good news though. One way they could add them on the software level even to current iPhones is to have some more icons in the status bar to reflect important information like unread email and SMS text messages or missed calls. That would eliminate the need to unlock the phone or scroll to a different Home screen to find these details and make the phone a tad more accessible. [via Apple Insider ]

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