Items tagged with: gesture
Double swipe up [webOS 2.x & 3.x]
This tip is only for devices running webOS 2.0 and higher
It's time for webOS on the HP TouchPad to reclaim gestures [editorial]
It was one of those genius features of webOS that just blew minds, and once you were used to it, your muscle memory had you trying it on other devices without thinking: the gesture area. I can’t count
Lengthy TouchPad demo reveals reborn gesture, keyboard keys, and more [video]
A few days back we sat through the live web steam of the HP Discover 2011 opening keynote, and we’ll be honest, all the talk of enterprise stuff and number crunching was starting to make us sleepy. But
Palm snuck a new gesture into webOS 2 - two-finger swipe for launcher
Sure, webOS 3.0 may be doing away with the gesture area and sure, we are still preemptively mourning its loss - but that doesn't mean that everybody's favorite touch-sensitive zone beneath the screen doesn
Tip Roundup: The Gesture Area
As we are now approaching almost 100 published tips, we thought it would be a good idea to highlight some of our past tips for any new PreCentral readers or just as a good reminder for our veteran readers
Hanging up a phone call
As with many tasks in webOS, there is usually more than one way to accomplish a single action. This includes something as simple as hanging up the phone. The obvious way to hang up on a phone call is
The quick launch wave
While rearranging your launcher icons to put your most often used icons on the Quick Launch Bar is a great way to ensure that you are only a swipe up away from accessing those apps, there is actually an
Working in card view
Pressing the center button/LCD or swiping up from the Gesture Area will bring you to Card View, where you are able to perform a variety of actions to access data on your phone or manage your open applications
Facebook App: Navigating the sections
As we continue our review of the Facebook Beta App, we are going to quickly walk-thru each of the 7 main sections of the app and give a brief overview of what is included there (if you still do not have
Meta-tap (Gesture Area + tap) and Copy/Paste
Two things that differentiate the hardware of webOS devices and that of all other mobile phones are the presence of both a physical keyboard and the Gesture Area. While the Gesture Area can be used to
