Have you heard the buzz? Good vibrations are officially here on Android — at least, on Google’s latest homemade Pixel gizmos.
One of the less prominent but more useful additions on the Pixel 11 series is a quietly added option buried deep within the devices’ settings to select from a series of distinctive vibration patterns for different types of alerts. That way, you can know exactly what’s happening at any given moment without even having to pull your phone out of your purse and/or pantaloons — sensing simply by the manner of buzzing that one vibration indicates an important call from work while another means an incoming message from a guy named Trent (and we all know you never stop what you’re doing to deal with a guy named Trent).
The vibration options vary not only in their patterns — with presets such as “Buzz,” “Heartbeat,” “Bumps,” and “Swirl” — but also in their intensity and duration (and for the love of all things holy, get your mind out of the gutter, lest I be forced to bring HR into this conversation).
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
