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aside from all the Amazon features like Firefly what really sets the fire phone apart from all other smartphones arts gestures with them you can navigate the phone with the flick or twist of your wrist here are some of the most useful ones to get you started the first gesture and the one you will most often activate unintentionally is the swivel with it a flick to the right reveals the quick action menu and it turned to the left shows you your notifications and weather plus in apps that support the gesture you have other options like site links and settings in the browser or in the weather app you can view locations or the daily forecast auto scroll is really useful for those times when you need to navigate down the page of the article you're reading it's excellent for when you're commuting and all you have to do is tilt your phone back to make it scroll the further back you tilt the faster it'll go and if you need to reverse just tilt your phone toward you and if at any point it gets out of control and you need to stop scrolling just tap the screen have you noticed that something is missing from the home screen yep the status bar which normally shows you the time and the battery percentage is absent well it's there you just have to peek in order to see it just tilt the phone slightly to the left or right to make it appear if you would rather just see your status bar at all times you can enable that in the phone's display settings these gestures do take some getting used to at first but after some time they will become second nature and you can also remember that if at any time you want to keep it old-school you can always just use your finger to perform the same actions if you have any questions or tips of your own hit me up on Twitter and check out cnet com / how to form or Amazon fire phone tips for cnet I'm Sharon Profis