
I can’t believe it’s been more than a decade since Samsung introduced what’s arguably its most gimmicky feature in a phone. I’m referring to the Air Gestures of the Galaxy S4, which were simply too ahead for their time. Remember them? Probably not.
Despite the novelty of waving my hand to scroll up and down web pages, or scrolling through the picture gallery, Air Gestures were largely forgettable — and probably why the feature slowly receded in subsequent editing of Samsung's phones. It simply wasn’t as intuitive as I thought it would be, especially when I could just do the old-fashioned thing of using my fingers to scroll.