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going on everyone this is Clayton Youngberg from Android Authority calm today I'm going to be doing a review of the brand new photosphere option that comes with the camera in Android 4.2 I actually installed this camera simply an apk as you can see we do have our front facing camera activated right now so we're going to go ahead and switch your back but anyways I did install the apk you have to be rooted and you flash it just like a ROM it's a flashable zip use clockworkmod recovery or any custom recovery that you want you simply install the APK or you can just install the APK if you have a Galaxy Nexus so anyways this is the brand new UI that comes with the Android 4.2 camera so you can see here we have a completely revamped user interface it's not really too much along the lines of the holo design that they were going with the Ice Cream Sandwich camera and that they retained in the early builds of jellybean so anyways when we're talking about the UI of this brand new camera we can go ahead and check out our settings menu which is this circle now go ahead and press the circle we have access to our flash our white balance our scene modes and then our front-facing and rear-facing camera configuration this is our slider setting here we can access our scene modes but we'll go ahead and go back check out our front-facing really quick of course I'm rocking the Samsung Galaxy s3 what's up everyone go ahead and switch it back I do have the Verizon version by the way so let's try out a photosphere once we're in the camera just like this we can click the camera icon and then simply click the photosphere icon we can also click panorama or video we'll go ahead and click the photosphere now as you can see that user interface of the photosphere starts off with just one image but we're going to be overlaying the images onto a complete 360 sphere so we actually get the 360 degree panorama and what it wants us to do is align to start so we're going to go ahead and tilt our phone up until we tap that little blue ball you can stop at any time as well you can also move the camera to the side in order to capture an image to the left we do the same to capture an image to the right top the diagonal going down any direction you want actually got my hand in there so that's kind of going to ruin that image but we'll go ahead and continue up here and we can basically capture anywhere we want 360 degrees we could turn it all the way around if we want to do to where it's actually point behind us and we get notifications like too fast if we're going too fast other stuff to warn us if we're not going to get a good image but basically you can track the creation of a 360 degree panorama as you're creating it just because you have it right here on your screen really great you can click the back if you don't want to continue the photo or the physical back button if you have one and you can click stop and it'll actually render the photo and when it's rendering the photo you'll have a nice notification up here that it says creating panorama and to view your images of course we're going to want to go into our gallery so our camera here and here's our image I didn't get an overly huge one but I did get a few of the others so you can pinch in scroll to this one a few other nice images I'm going to go ahead and do one off camera just because it's a little easier I won't be able to show you guys the entire 360 degree view but I'll do an off camera ever so quickly and then come back and show you guys alright everyone this is the complete 360 degree image that I actually took right here zoom in this is in all four directions north south east and west people complete 360 degrees this is behind me actually and then we can go over to the left it merges it in a nice panoramic view it it's taking the 360 degrees and just completely putting it on one plane for viewing is my baby got my truck parked right here doing the filming and we can scroll through oh whoops actually went farther in my gallery we can go ahead and scroll through and this edge right here is actually met up by this one 360 degrees it's a really awesome feature Google baked into its camera plenty of other awesome features come with Android 4.2 of course we got a coverage for all the different phones that are available including the Samsung Galaxy s3 check out the apk for the brand-new camera if you've got a Google Nexus and stay subscribed to Android authority calm guys this is Clayton Youngberg