Asus ZenFone 5Z Gets Gesture Navigation With Latest Update

In the list of trends that are steadily making their fashion to each phone, gesture navigation takes the spot right after the notch. Yeah, every phone maker is now attracted to the idea that they can offer fifty-fifty more than screen real-manor to the users by removing the on-screen navigation buttons at the lesser.

Asus is the newest company to join the crop of Android makers and has added gestures to its flagship ZenFone 5Z smartphone via a new update. This option is available in the 'navigation bar' settings menu, which you lot can observe in the display settings on your device. This will replace the traditional nav bar buttons.

As for how the gestures piece of work, they aren't similar to the implementation on the iPhone X and Android Pie but instead, takes cues from its curvation-nemesis in its price subclass – the OnePlus half-dozen.

Yes, as you can see beneath, the ZenFone 5Z will permit you to swipe upwardly from the center lesser to go dwelling house and swipe from either the right or left push button to become dorsum or to the Recent apps screen respectively. You can customize which positions trigger which actions depending on what you're more than comfy with.

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The navigation gestures have found their fashion to the ZenFone 5Z with a new ZenUI update, build number 80.thirty.96.71, that is said to be rolling out in batches. This OTA update should be available to you in the coming days simply you can caput to the 'Software Update' choice in the 'Organization' setting to bank check if they've arrived or non.

Our device is currently running build eighty.eleven.37.95 and we haven't received the latest build simply yet. We will be doing an in-depth exam of the gestures once the OTA update lands on our ZenFone 5Z.

If you have already received the gesture UI on your device, let u.s.a. know whether you discover them fluid and worth the switch from the traditional navigation bar buttons.