The Mailbox app, which will remain a stand-alone app after the acquisition, features a number of swipe gestures that allow users to quickly plow through email messages.
The new swipe gestures to bring up menus, as well as the great detail in which information is displayed, are clear as soon as you open the app.
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Instead of forcing us to replicate long swipe gestures using a mouse (which would be cruel to all concerned), Microsoft is putting forward these little key combos as the primary means of navigation on traditional desktop PCs that don't have touchscreens.
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It adds new gestures: you swipe to the left to close a tile and swipe to the right to save a tile to read later.
What's more, all the same gestures apply: swipe from the right to expose the Charm Bar, which contains options for searching content and adjusting system settings.
On future iPads, you may be able to control your tablet from across the room using 3-D gestures, such as a swirl or swipe of the hand.
The pad can be a bit finicky, too -- while it does a fantastic job of recognizing standard Windows multitouch gestures, its own three-finger swipe, used to view the next or previous page of configured buttons, fails to register unless your fingers are lined up perfectly.
The BlackBerry will emphasize typing with one thumb, with gestures and the ability to delete with a thumb swipe anywhere.
You can also use it to perform gestures to replicate the Android buttons -- hold and swipe up for Menu, down for Home and left for Back.
The service must also recognize gestures to enable a person to page through virtual slides with a hand swipe.
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