How come the hand-wave/gesture never caught on?

I'm still rocking a Droid Turbo, though looking for a replacement (harder than I expected it to be!). And one of the funnest things about it has always been the hand-wave to check the time/notifications/whatever (and of course the chop-chop flashlight). But while looking for replacement phones it seems like this whole idea kind of fell by the wayside. Or did it move into third-party apps and so it's just ignored by the OEMs?

It's just so fun to Jedi wave your phone awake, seems odd that Apple/etc. never implemented it. Apparently Samsung did a while ago but then it disappeared again?



Submitted November 28, 2018 at 04:43PM by Caleddin https://ift.tt/2DQaMog https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

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