Google confirms the Pixel 3 and 3 XL only have gesture-based navigation
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- Sad facts.
- 6TT
- 10 Oct 2018
i am quite suprised it took google so long to copy this gesture.
iPad multi touch navigation was not copied by android honeycomb...
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- m5k
- 10 Oct 2018
This has implications for Android One phones who will probably with the Android 10 upgrade have to fully embrace this gesture based navigation. Those at Pie only with a choice have a better option.
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- 10 Oct 2018
JohnW1981, 10 Oct 2018I think at least Samsung will try to resist this, they want... moreAt least their gesture-based navigation is logical and isn't an Apple copy like Google's. And on Pie you can disable it.
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- 10 Oct 2018
Anonymous, 10 Oct 2018I LMAO when read a review of another device a while ago on ... moreGestures are easier for years. Had to root just to get that. Finally google adds it natively.
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- 10 Oct 2018
AnonD-632062, 10 Oct 2018See. This just proves it. Google is blindly following Apple... moreThere is nothing unuitive in pressing a button in a touch based device you regressive ....
Buttons and skeuomorphism should had been dead since early this decade. The soft button detour took 8 years away from intuitive use. Thankfully root and GMD solved it , but the stock experience was always so lacking. Finally google (through Apple) solved it.
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- 10 Oct 2018
I love it. I've been using gesture-based navigation since 2011 when I briefly had a Palm Pixi Plus. Then used it on Android by 2013 when I made my default launcher, Nova Prime. I knew five years ago that gesture control is the future and it took Apple to commercialize it.
I don't understand how Apple fanboys say Google is copying iPhone X when Apple copied many of Android's features and copied webOS, QNX, Meego, and BB10. Also, Chinese OEMs had gestures to wake the screen up. You can draw a letter and it sends you directly to a specific app. I used All-in-one Gestures, Lazy Swipe, and Nova's gestures for years and years.
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- 10 Oct 2018
Gesture navigation is another item added to people's notch, big bezels and no earphone jack phobias.
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- 10 Oct 2018
Google is mocking Apple, but they're pretty much doing everything that they do. I thought Android was about giving users the option to choose, but forcing people to go gesture based? Bad move, Google. Plus, the gestures on the iPhone feel much more natural, smoother and more fluid. I think what Google should have done is for every button in the navbar (Back, Home, Recents) give them all 3 seperate options, every button in the navbar should have a hold option, swipe up, swipe left/right option. For example: Hold on the Home button, Google assistant (yeah, we have that), swipe up will take a screenshot, swipe left/right will change the songs, do you get what I'm saying? There is an infinite number of possibilites, and Google has gone with this? I rooted my 2014 phone and gave it more functionality in the navbar and it really feels like a good change. So, for people that like to keep it simple, have the option to keep the gestures ON, but for people that want to make their devices more personal and more customized, have the option to turn gestures OFF. Simple as that
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- 10 Oct 2018
Google is ruining android, may have to switch over to apple in the next 3 or 4 years
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- 10 Oct 2018
The Nokia N9 was purely gesture based, and it worked like a dream. It was very intuitive and natural. If Android can work like Meego, we should be fine.
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- 10 Oct 2018
AnonD-558092, 10 Oct 2018That's not Samsung. But sure continue to spread misinformat... moreI think at least Samsung will try to resist this, they want to differentiate their phones from Apple's
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- Anonymous
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- 10 Oct 2018
The list of reasons not to buy a Pixel 3 is already very long... and now another reason to add to the list. GJ Google!
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- 10 Oct 2018
Whackcar, 10 Oct 2018I don't like the direction where Google is heading. They're... moreI think the same, That's the reason why I love android so much, THE FREEDOM!!
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- 10 Oct 2018
I don't like the direction where Google is heading. They're slowly becoming the second Apple.
They can screw up their Pixel phones as much as they want, i don't care. But they better not screw up Android OS for the rest of the OEMs. Android has always been about customization and full control over it's appearance and behavior. If it turns into iOS like crap, i assure them there will be a massive backlash.
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- 10 Oct 2018
Limited options.. that you cant disable... o well no one will really buy it anyone... unless they are using it as a wing man to make themselves looks better..
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- JT5
- 10 Oct 2018
I am glad XZ3 has buttons and no gestures are allowed.
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- JT5
- 10 Oct 2018
I LMAO when read a review of another device a while ago on another site.
Not sure if was Verge or Android Police.
The writer made critics on the phone for having virtual buttons. He stated that gestures are easier than just clicking the buttons.
That was very bias, probably an iPhone X user.
If I had to buy an iPhone, I surely would choose 8+ because of home button/FPS.
No way swiping to all directions and short/long press are easier than virtual buttons.
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- 10 Oct 2018
Is this for real?!??
O-M-G!!
What's whit all this cr@p??
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- 10 Oct 2018
matt00112233, 10 Oct 2018making fun of Apple until we do like Apple, that's the Goog... moreThat's not Samsung. But sure continue to spread misinformation because you are so ignorant and so angry about it that you want others to be as ignorant as you