Palm Pre - Manual (Page 44)

44 Section 2B: Move Around on Your Phone
Swipe: A swipe is most often a horizontal gesture, from right to left or left to right. Do it fast, do
it lightly. In a swipe, your fingertip just skims the surface of the touchscreen or gesture area.
One kind of swipe you’ll use a lot: Back. Make the back gesture from right to left anywhere in
the gesture area. Back takes you up one level from a detailed view to a more general view of
the application you’re working in. For example, when you finish reading an email message,
make the back gesture to close the message and return to your list of messages. Or when
you finish writing a memo, make the back gesture to close and save the memo and return to
the display of all your memos. When you make the back gesture in an application and that’s
the only screen of that app that’s open, you minimize the app and go back to Card view.