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hey what's up guys I'm Kay PhD here and welcome to the top five features of android 4.2 jelly bean so yes Android 4.2 is still jelly bean just like Android 4.1 was it's just a minor point one update but in this point one update you do get at least five if not more major feature updates that are at least noteworthy so I'm gonna be going through the top five today go ahead and leave your number one down below the like button on this video if you have a number one already but uh yeah you'll be able to get this update on the Nexus 4 right out the box on the Nexus 10 tablet right out the box and it should be rolling out over the air to the Galaxy Nexus and the lucky Nexus 7 tablet and of course a couple other devices later in the future so keep your eye on the news to find out if your device will get it but without any further ado let's go ahead and take a look at this countdown number five is the new lockscreen in Android 4.2 and I put new in quotes because it's a very minor update but it's an update so in the new lock screen it's kind of cool because you can swipe the entire lockscreen to the side to get to the camera and take pictures and video from there or you can swipe the entire lockscreen to the other side and visit your widgets and this is where you'll be able to get information before even unlocking the phone looks kind of cool you can add some clocks you can add a calendar widget and probably some third-party widgets support later down the road but to be honest it feels a little bit half-baked right now because you can only add one widget per swipe so you can have a calendar but then if you want your clock you have to go another widgets which will be on a new page so you have to swipe again to get to the next widget but honestly it looks pretty cool I'll probably just have my calendar on my next swipe from the lockscreen and that's pretty cool you can add an information there number four is guest you're typing in the new keyboard now they call it guest you're typing or gesture typing apparently is how it supposed to be said but basically if you've heard of a swipe for Android already it never arrived in the Play Store but it allowed you to swipe from letter to letter and then let go and the word that you've swiped across the screen would appear there Google has done the exact same thing with some enhancements in a stock Android keyboard so you can swipe across the letters you want to make a word and as you're swiping it'll update the preview of the word it thinks you're going to type and when you let go that word will appear in a text box so you can type really really fast obviously with this new swiping method rather than typing like a regular hunt-and-peck style I've actually used swipe a lot before this so having it in a stock Android keyboard is a big deal and I'll definitely be using it a lot it's really fast really cool feature and of course it still looks good number three is quick settings you probably saw us coming already quick settings is accessible in more than one way you can access it by swiping down the notification bar with one finger and tapping the quick settings button or you can swipe down with two fingers on a tablet you can swipe down the left hand side for regular notifications or swipe down the right hand side for your quick settings your quick settings gives you access to all sorts of really neat convenient features so for example if you're on a tablet your multiple user account support is there you have a and unique 1% battery indicator so your battery percentage is there you have quick access to your brightness your GPS your Bluetooth all your different toggles are there and once you tap the brightness so get a little slider so you never have to enter the actual settings of Android you can just enter your quick settings right there and if you do want to enter the actual settings of Android there's also a button in quick settings to get to the full settings so I think this is really neat I've been talking about this in my Super Nexus video I mentioned that this was baked into some other previous rungs for Android likes an engine mod and a okp but now it is in stock Android you don't have to route or do anything fancy I just hit the microphone you have to do anything fancy to get the quick settings now it is built into Android you don't have to go crazy out of your way to get it so that's a nice touch number two is the little things and I actually said this in my Android 4.1 video the little things there are so many little things in jellybean that just made it more polished a more complete feeling user experience and Android 4.2 also has some new little things for example in Gmail 4.2 you can finally now pinch to zoom rich HTML emails you can check out the new Google now improvements which will integrate with Gmail and pick up on you know the weather in places you might be traveling or your hotel room reservation or a package you might be tracking also new in Android 4.2 is something called daydream which is basically a screensaver for your phone which is I don't know it's cool I wouldn't use it because that seems like a battery killer but if you have some cool pictures in your gallery you can use it also varies like I said multiple user account support on tablets so you can have Angry Birds on one account and some angry Birds piggies on another account and when you switch over to the Angry Birds piggies count you'll probably be on a different level so it'll remember what level you're on it's very very cool it does use more storage though so make sure you get a higher end tablet maybe a 16 or 32 gig Nexus tablet and you'll be able to love user account support there's also wireless display settings and a whole bunch of other bug fixes and performance increases project butter is still there it's still buttery smooth as usual so there are a ton of new things that make Android 4.2 jelly bean just as lovable as the first iteration and last but not least finally the number one new feature in Android 4.2 you probably saw this coming already is the new camera the new user interface the new features everything about that new camera and gallery the new user interface of the camera is pretty simple you have a new focus ring so it's green when your focus red when you're not you can tap to focus like usual and also you can access your settings in a camera just by tapping in the middle and swiping outwards to whichever setting you want to adjust so you can adjust your flash or your exposure settings or your location settings or even what white balance you're using just by swiping over the correct setting and it'll adjust it automatically you can also change storage location and image size moving right on up to video mode you can still take 1080p video if your phone supports it at are still time lapse and then moving up from that there is panorama photos which lets you take panorama in both horizontal and portrait mode so whichever way you hold your phone you can take panorama is that way and then moving on up from that photosphere when you turn photosphere on you'll be able to line it up and basically stitch a whole bunch of photos together in a 360 degree panorama to create a massive submerse 'iv 30 40 mega pixels in size and full of detail and once you share it you'll have the ability to view it just like you're standing in the same place that the photo was taken you can share this photosphere as a regular really really wide image but that doesn't always look so great on like Twitter and Facebook where I've been sharing them so if you share it on Google+ on the desktop site there's actually a photos for your viewer which allows you to look up and down and around the image just like Google Street View and also in the new gallery you can do that as well so if you have a new photo so you're on the gallery you tap the photosphere button and it'll just zoom you right in and you can start taking a look at that new image you took up-down left-right again just like you're staying there at Google Street View the new gallery also has some interesting and good new features like you can add these Instagram like Effects if you're into that kind of thing you can instantly crop or adjust the rotation of images so there's some quick image editing features in there and that's definitely helpful if you edit stuff on the fly but overall the new gallery is also a lot faster I noticed I was impressed with the performance so the new camera and gallery is awesome in Android 4.2 also just a tip for people taking photo spheres since I figured while I'm here I'll show you guys a lot of people when you're taking panoramas it'll be okay to swing your phone around like this and not really keep it in the same spot while you're taking a photo sphere you'll notice when you're looking at a Google Maps photo sphere it's literally as if you're standing with your head in space and looking around on a swivel so when you're taking a photo sphere try to keep the camera lens or at least the camera in the same place so instead of looking up and down all crazy like that which looks a little weird anyway you can just keep the camera in place and tilt it up and tilt it to the side and pivot it around to capture the whole photo sphere and once you're done you'll notice that gets the stitching a lot better you want to have as many things crossed over or looking a little bit weird so I'll try to share the better panoramas and photo spheres that I take on Google+ and then your future so if you're ready for those go out and give this video a +1 or thumbs up and if you enjoy the whole video of course feel free to subscribe because there will be more or like it in the near future either way feel free to leave your number one feature I was in between the camera and the new keyboard for being my number one feature but I went with the new camera because it has that wow factor but I definitely love the new keyboard as well either way thanks for watching guys I really appreciate it and I will talk to you guys video you