Samsung Galaxy J2 (2016) is official with respectable specs, Smart Glow alerts

While typically we’d pay little attention to yet another familiar, somewhat premature entry into the low-end Galaxy J smartphone series, Samsung actually has something new and different featured on the J2 (2016).Something even the super-premium Note 7 or GS8 could pick up to enable color-coded LED notifications. The technology is dubbed Smart Glow, and at least on the Samsung Galaxy J2 2016 edition, it lets you set Priority and Usage Alerts, as well as ...

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That Blue Coral Galaxy Note 7 is more like periwinkle

Evan Blass told us that it was going to be the Galaxy Note 7. Now he’s showing us the Galaxy Note 7. And it’s three colors strong.On Twitter, he has put pictures to the device and names to the colors with one special hue previously hinted at in a Korean trademark application.Samsung Galaxy Note7 in (from l to r) Black Onyx, Silver Titanium, and Blue Coral

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Galaxy S8 could also get Galaxy J2’s Smart Glow

Samsung is likely switching out the notification LED for a illuminated ring and will debut the feature, dubbed Smart Glow, on the Galaxy J2. That we can figure out so far. The Galaxy Note 7 may get the feature, too and so may the

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Smart Glow, notification signal and selfie helper, may be on Galaxy Note 7

Samsung may be putting a concentric twist on the notification LED.According to material obtained by GalaxyClub.nl, we may see a “luminous ring” surrounding the rear camera to replace the single diode. You can assign certain priority alerts, contacts and data or battery usage settings to certain colors the ring will glow. Of course, incoming communications will also get shown off with Smart Glow. It’s an evolution of sorts for the 

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