Searching in Android now with Google Gesture

Google had added a sweet little extra that’s likely to make many Android users happy. The company is offering a new app called Gesture Search that lets users search their phone by just drawing alphabets on the touch screen.
You just draw your letters on the touch screen to search contacts, bookmarks..etc, just draw letters only. You can refine your search by scrawl more characters and easily wipe off. Easily delete ones by draw a horizontal line at the bottom. Drawing from right to left deletes the last letter of the query and going from left to right wipe off the entire query.

Gesture Search recognizes both lower case and upper case letters and is available for free.

Google says the search is “fast and fun to use.” But be warned, the app is available only for phones that run Android operating system version 2.0 and higher. That means many of Motorola’s latest phones including the newly released Backflip and Devour as well as phones released late last year such as the HTC Droid Eris won’t support Gesture Search.

If you your phone does not use Android 2 don’t worry as Google are hoping to upgrade all US Android Handsets to Android 2.1 later this year.

Because it is a Google Labs project, which means it is still in the beta stages, Gesture Search is not available outside the U.S