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Help & How To Guides- Android Authority
We’ve gone a long way in terms of phone interfaces, far beyond the multi-tap keypads, predictive Tegic T9 and the Navi Key of past decades. We can argue that the paradigm shift in smartphone user interfaces started with phone-powered PDAs like the Compaq iPaq of the early 2000’s, but it’s the first iPhone that made a revolutionary change in terms of touch-based UIs. Now, Android devices have proliferated in the market across all price ranges.
But one thing still remains: the touch-based user interface is still modeled after the same tapping, swiping, pinching and rotating gestures we have all grown accustomed to.
