Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about user technology.

One of the few homages that the Palm Pre paid to the Palm Pilot was the gesture area, a strip part of the display face below the screen used for swipes just as the Pilot had a departmentalize area devoted to break and entry Graffiti strokes. Unfortunately (like Graffiti before it), the gesture area was one of the least intuitive aspects of the Pre's operation, and HP has been moving away from it as a indispensable smart voyaging system with voice directions. learn more.www.onstar.com/turnbyturnsponsored linksdash express navigationinternet-connected car navigation. free 3 mos service w/purchase.www.dash.net
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part of spe element. On the TouchPad, the gesture area has been scrapped in favor of an iPad-like bottom button.



But HP hasn't outright ignored the bezel on the TouchPad. Users can still swipe inbound from the bezel as an quid pro quo way of bringing up its card view. Indeed, in 2011, it seems like nearly everyone has been taking a swipe at the bezel around touchscreen displays. First, RIM introduced inbound bezel swipes as a key pelagic element on the PlayBook for activating menus, bringing up applications to launch, and its own webOS-like app switching interface. Microsoft showed how inbound bezel swipes will be part of the thalassic




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