Even the thumbs-up gesture is an obscene one in some parts of the world.
The most important gesture is swiping up from the bottom bezel, which always brings you back to a tiled view of all the running apps.
The much talked about Gesture control offers very marginal benefit on a small screen and as often as not the phone did not pick up the gesture.
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BlackBerry hub is accessible at any time from within any app using a two-stage gesture -- swiping up from the bottom of the screen lets you peek at your notifications, and swiping to the right drops you into the hub where you can interact with those messages.
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Darfour envisions wearable computing as a distributed facility that picks up signals from gesture and body movement.
Typing on this phone felt more accurate than in the past, and text can be dragged and dropped to different places using a gesture to swipe down and up.
What he saw amounted to a bunch of awkward glances, so he came up with a simple gesture, involving a hand over the heart, which allows people to simply acknowledge those in uniform.
Some just smile and hold up their hands in a gesture of surrender.
Alternatively, anywhere in the OS you can perform a V-shaped gesture on the LCD display to bring up a replica of the current screen (even the home screen, if you wanted) in E Ink.
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Earlier this year, in an important gesture, the archbishop of San Francisco turned up at a lay convocation.
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RGO, it might be a nice gesture if the exhibition's sponsors could come up with a few extra coppers for the upkeep of the organisation that is the ultimate reason they are there.
It is there that Rangel takes up the story, telling CNN about his gesture as he drove through the city looking for people sleeping rough.
Mr. Schultheis looked up to acknowledge what he thought was a sympathetic gesture.
"One of them looked up towards Mr Casal and proceeded to make a gesture with his left hand across the thigh of his left leg, " said Mr Temple.
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His "last gesture, which was highly political, was to try to wake up the people of France, " she wrote.
In the first week of my trial, I had become so accustomed to BB10's gesture-based UI that I started trying to wake Android devices by swiping up on the screen.
When the tom-toms picked up again in the finale, I mentally checked out: the gesture had been made too many times before, not just in the past three decades but in the past thirty minutes.
At least NTT DoCoMo thinks so, offering up a new interface to avoid such issues -- and throw in some extra gesture shortcuts.
It is possible that skilled diplomacy may come up with some face-saving way for the republicans to make enough of a gesture to restart the political process.
But the whole experience awakened in me a lifelong interest in body language, gesture, and the conscious effort to understand what other people took for granted, content to pick up emotion and intent for the most part unconsciously.
Such a gesture would be in keeping with the traditions of the quirky 220-year-old pub, which has built up a reputation for hosting activities including the Annual World Pea-Throwing Championship and Dwyle Flunking, a traditional game involving two teams, a broom stick, a chamber pot and a beer-soaked rag.
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