Google Gesture Search puts your contacts just a stroke away

If you look under the hood, Google's been beefing up Android with support for gestures that developers can take advantage of, and the power and flexibility of that capability is now being demoed by none other than... well, Google, of course. Gesture Search -- which is currently being billed a Google Labs project -- lets you draw letters on the screen to reach contacts and other content on your phone, an especially nice shortcut for those who like to avoid the on-screen keyboard as much as possible. As it learns what you tend to search for, the quality of the searches improves, meaning you need to swipe less to get to frequently-accessed items. It needs Android 2.0 to do its thing, but if you've got a so-equipped phone, it's available now from the US-localized Market.

[ScienceProUSAcom Posted Mar 4th 2010 10:58PM]

Very cool! Reminds me of good ole Graffiti in Palm OS.

[ScienceProUSAcom Posted Mar 4th 2010 10:59PM]

@ScienceProUSAcom

Although I should mention that Windows Mobile 6.X already offers handwriting recognition as a stand-in fro the onscreen keyboard. However this is cool since it's more casual and optimized for capacitive use.

[therodt Posted Mar 5th 2010 2:39PM]

@ScienceProUSAcom Oh yeahhhhh it does with that stylus thingee

[emuneee Posted Mar 4th 2010 11:07PM]

"Google Gesture Search puts your contacts just a stroke away" -- Thats What She Said

[cr8tive Posted Mar 5th 2010 2:29PM]

@emuneee

haha

[Peter F Posted Mar 4th 2010 11:27PM]

Why don't they just implement dialing like Windows Mobile? It has an amazing dialer. You type out the contacts name with the onscreen keypad in a T9 fashion. It works really well.

[Pillboy Posted Mar 5th 2010 9:44PM]

@Peter F
Yeah. I miss that, actually.

[allnighter Posted Mar 5th 2010 12:21AM]

Works great, try it out!

[SDreamer Posted Mar 5th 2010 1:22AM]

Reminds me of the transcriber found natively in Windows Mobile ;)