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hey destruction regard from Android Authority what's going on everybody and here we're taking a look at the LGV 20 and we're taking a look at some of the software some of the additions rather that they put into this new version of Android nougats yes nougat is the software you get on here the v20 is going to be the first phone that gets it and as you can already see from the home screens not a whole lot has changed actually after all this is still LG's UI and you get some of these stretchy icons on the home screens very reminiscent of past versions of the GUI and from there we do have the app drawer enabled thankfully but when we first got our hands on this device it didn't have an app drawer but it's still available as a download from the LG smart world application now looking at the home screens we do have the ability to change up the widgets the apps and the wallpapers of course but that's something that you probably expected from there already but there's going to be a change in the notification drop-down as it has the sleeker look of the new get notification drop-down it is also able to be edited so you can edit the positioning of all the different elements and there's plenty of them inside of the notification drop-down so there's a lot of options to really work with we have all of the usual toggles for settings like Bluetooth Wi-Fi NFC and all that but we also have this right here the hi-5 quad DAC now this can only be toggled if you have headphones or music playing through the speakers but mostly for headphones and right next to it is capture plus capture plus you can say is the LGV 20s let's say version of the screen memo from the samsung galaxy note 7 and of course we don't work with a stylus here but if we hit capture plus open still editing and capture plus you'll be able to take a screenshot of everything that is currently displaying and be able to write on it and edit it in this particular fashion now just have a little bit of fun here I will go into the settings and bring up the easter-egg of course you go to a bat phone head over to the software info and tap the Android version of a bunch of times and you get the Android new get n tap a bunch of times and hold and you see on the bottom that a tiny little cat or an echo rather appears from there we can go to the notification drop-down you'll see here that we can edit it and we have the Easter egg right there I'm going to drag that to be front and center or rather the first thing on the list and right now it is an empty dish so if I were to tap that I could choose from these four different icons and be able to make it say something else so there I officially have a donut or a treat rather as that icon there when you select one of those treats it's like you're putting it out to attract a cat and every now and then you will have a notification that says that a cat is here and that treat has disappeared and has been replaced with the empty dish once again of course one of the main features of the v10 was its second screen there's literally a second screen up here a little area that shows the time the day and a bunch of notifications over on the side even when the main screen is off it's kind of nice to be able to see all of that but when I turn on the main screen it goes over to the signature now this signature can be shown when the main screen is off you just have to toggle either the time or the signature in the settings but when you swipe here there are a number of different panels and we have some icons that can be customized for quick shortcuts or these quick tools for turning on things like the flashlight and then of course the signature here the signature is the main part that was addressed in the second screen now you can put up to 24 digits that can be more keyed and scrolling so that you have a nice signature there also the second screen brightness has been bumped up a little bit so anyone that was having issues from the v10 will not have that with the v20 as everything is nice and clear to see now one feature about the signature portion of the second screen is that it now comes with what's called the signature wallpaper if I were to change this here and I keep the same signature I can hit save and I'll get this notification that says that the first character of the signature can be made into a lockscreen wallpaper now it only changes the lockscreen wallpaper so in this case for my signature that says the next moment it will create a tea that can be customized in a number of different ways so if we take a look at that there's a tea there we can also have different backgrounds a tea for that and it's a lowercase T so you can see how it has Seraph here on the bottom so we'll go ahead and pick let's say that one there and we'll set the wallpaper and on the lock screen it is definitely the signature T from there that's pretty much all that LG put into this version of Android nougat they actually didn't put too much of what they have in the past into this version of Android this time around which is actually a good thing it keeps things nice and simple and with Android nougat at the helm you can be sure too that a lot of the stock elements are there which are always easy on the eyes a few extra features are available but they are the original nougat features for example power saving is not being done by LG anymore and multi-window now replaces the LG version of dual window that we had in the G line before we're really excited to bring you all of our coverage in the LG v20 so make sure you stay tuned to android authority for even more about it and it's comparisons to plenty of the other Android smartphones in the market today and from there you can see all of our coverage on Android authority comm and then stay here at the Android thority YouTube channel because we are your source for all things Android