Slashdot Asks: How Do You Navigate Your Smartphone?

There are many different ways to navigate a smartphone. Some devices employ capacitive touch navigation buttons in favor of on-screen navigation buttons for the back, home and overview commands. Others, such as the recently released Moto Z2 Force and Moto Z2 Play, feature a mini trackpad under the display that lets users navigate their device through a series of swipes (on-screen navigation buttons are used by default, but the option to use the "one button nav" mini trackpad can be enabled in the settings). The upcoming iPhone 8, for example, may feature a software bar in lieu of a physical/virtual home button, introducing new gesture controls for returning to the home screen and switching between apps.

How do you navigate your smartphone? Given the many different options available on the market, do you think there is one method of navigation that trumps the others, or is it a classic case of "different strokes for different folks?"

Comments

A Keyboard? Pfftt. Luxury

[rsilvergun]

I use punch cards the way God and Nature intended.

Re:How do you navigate your smartphone?

[Mr D from 63]

WTF? How do you navigate your smartphone? That's your fucking question? Texas is flooding, the earth is going to shit, and your biggest question is how to use a freaking product that my grandma can use (in her grave)? I navigate the damn thing with the freakin GUI provided and don't really GARA if someone else is swiping while I'm typing, or wiping.

Let's ponder the truly hard questions in life;
How do you turn off your lights at night?
How do you deal with seeds in seedless watermelons?
How do you decide how long to heat food in your microwave?

Siri

[tsa]

I use Siri for all my phone navigation. You learn a lot about the world that way, because most of the times she doesn't understand me.