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Android phones get Gesture Search
04.03.2010
Google has just announced a new way to search, for Android handsets: through written gestures scrawled across the screen and then interpreted by Gesture Search.
Say, for example, you are looking for your friend Frank in your address book: simply trace an 'f' anywhere on the screen with Gesture Search open and it will return all contacts beginning with this letter - or if it looks a little like a 't' this will be suggested, too.
Gesture Search lets you find a contact, an installed application, a bookmark or a music track by drawing alphabet gestures on your touchscreen device.
You can erase the gesture query by crossing it horizontally: left to right erases the entire query and right to left removes the last letter or space in the query.
Gesture Search is currently in Google Labs and only works on Android 2.0 devices and above. It is not yet available outside the US on Android Market.
Photo: Gesture Search
By Marie Boran
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