• @D_C@lemm.ee
      5•1 day ago

      I remember that on my LG viewty I had to download and then run some form of a file to turn the screen white for it to have a torch.
      And the first time I ran it I was all “omg, this is amazing. What will they think of next!?!!”

    • lime!English
      3•1 day ago

      no. my first smartphone ran android 1.6 and had a flashlight. may have been a htc-specific thing back then though.

      • @BootLoop@sh.itjust.works
        1•1 day ago

        I think so. I remember installing a flashlight app on my Samsung phones later than that. From what I can find online it was introduced into base Android until 5.0

    • LousyCornMuffinsEnglish
      1•1 day ago

      remember when you could change the color of your flashlight with an app? can you still do that?

      • @sgh@lemmy.ml
        6•1 day ago

        I remember my Nexus having a colored notification LED that you could customize, i.e. for WhatsApp notification it’d be green, for SMS blue, emails red, etc.