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- Google is testing a new left-right sliding gesture for answering and rejecting calls in the Phone app.
- The new UI is a departure from the current up-down swipe mechanism.
- The new UI has a distinct look reminiscent of older custom ROMs.
Nowadays, Android phones are used for a myriad of tasks, and I wouldn’t be surprised if people forgot that their phones can still make phone calls. Much of our communication now happens through texts and social media, but taking calls remains an important reason to get a phone. If you use your phone a lot for calls, you’d also be accustomed to the gestures used for answering and rejecting calls, and it’s one of those things that hasn’t changed much over the years. But sometimes it does, and it seems we’ve spotted Google rethinking the gestures and UI used for answering calls.