Gesture navigation is the way of the future: it's convenient when done right, it frees up space that buttons would otherwise occupy, and it can make a touchscreen experience much more fluid and enjoyable, but it feels a bit broken in the present.

From my point of view as someone who reviews all sorts of phones and switches between devices quite often, I can easily see how different approaches to gesture navigations. And I have been thinking about how I am yet to see a perfect implementation of a gesture navigation interface, which is quite sad. So... let me first walk you through ...