1. An electronic device comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing instructions for providing: a plurality of event generation and handling components associated with different device event types and for generating a notification event upon occurrence of an event handled by the respective event generation and handling component; a profile management component for managing user profiles defining user preferences of notifications associated with different incoming device event types and managing profile exceptions defining one or more notification exceptions to the user profiles; and a user notification component for generating a user notification for a generated notification event from one or more of the plurality of event generation and handling components, the user notification generated in accordance with one of the one or more profile exceptions if a condition of the generated notification event matches a condition of the profile exception or matches with an active user profile of the user profiles that is selected for specifying current user preferences for notifications.