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Google has developed a new function for its Android-powered mobile phones that should save handset users time.

Gesture Search has been designed by the company to enable a user to "quickly" find a contact in their phone book by simply drawing the first letter of that person’s name on the touchscreen.

The Google Labs application is currently available in the US for devices with Android 2.0 or higher, which could be the kind of new innovation that comes to these shores in the near future.

Yang Li, a research scientist, said it doesn’t matter too much if a person’s handwriting isn’t that neat because the phone will recognise what they are writing.

If one letter looks like another then the phone will suggest all of the names that begin with either letter for the user to look through and select the person they wish to call, he explained.

Last month Little Worlds Studio’s announced it had developed a new application – called Where’s My Phone? – for the Apple iPhone that will save people a lot of time.

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