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The gesture area was a really good, and unique, selling point. It's what makes buttons redundant and have a true touch experience where you can actually use your figures. Other operating systems' ideas of touch screen have just to move hardware buttons to software buttons. One thing that really struck me as odd with the iPhone (I’m not sure if this has been changed) is that to make an appointment in your calendar you have to touch the “+” button, you couldn’t just touch in a time period where you want the new appointment. To re-iterate, that may now have changed- it’s been a while since I’ve played with an iPhone- Just an example of an OS not being optimised for touch input.
I see that the gesture area is in the Pre 3 still- which is great. Obviously the hurdle of moving the gesture area to the TouchPad was too big to overcome, or maybe it just doesn't work.
I can see that it would be a problem to hold the Pad and swipe in the bezel area, supporting the pad in one palm being the issue (Which you can obviously do with the smaller phone).
It’s still a slight disappointment; I just hope HP have thought of a nice way to overcome that hurdle. It does appear that they’ve just gone for the easy (Ah well... Button will do it!) route.
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