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Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch
Gestures are an important, basic part of your phone. They're easy to learn,
and they make working with the phone fast. You make most gestures with
one finger. For a few, you need two. Make gestures with the tip of your
finger. Do not use your fingernail. Don't bear down.
To see short animations illustrating how to make gestures, go to
palm.com/support
or tap
Clips
in Help on your phone (see
applications
for information on how to open Help).
You make gestures in two areas on your phone: the touchscreen and the
gesture area. The gesture area is the black area extending along the bottom
of the screen.
* Gesture area
You also need to know about the Center button. Press the Center button to
do the following:
•
When you're working in an application, press Center to see Card view.
Card view shows you all the applications that are currently open,
displayed as a series of cards (small active windows).
•
When you're in Card view, press Center to maximize the app in the center
of the view.
Basic gestures
Tap:
and then immediately lift your fingertip off the screen. Don't bear down on
what you're tapping. Don't wait for a response; the response comes after
you lift your finger. Don't linger on the gesture; a tap takes a split second
to do.
Open
Swipe:
right. Do it fast, do it lightly. In a swipe, your fingertip just skims the surface
of the touchscreen or gesture area.
One kind of swipe you'll use a lot: Back. Make the back gesture from right to
left anywhere in the gesture area. Back takes you up one level from a
detailed view to a more general view of the application you're working in.
For example, when you finish reading an email message, make the back
gesture to close the message and return to your list of messages. Or when
you finish writing a memo, make the back gesture to close and save the
memo and return to the display of all your memos. When you make the
back gesture in an application and that's the only screen of that app that's
open, you minimize the app and go back to Card view.
Tap with the tip of the finger—not the fingernail. Tap fast and firmly,
A swipe is most often a horizontal gesture, from right to left or left to
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