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hey what is up guys I'm Kay PhD here and after looking at all of today's announcements after compiling and analyzing it all and looking through every single thing here it is and here we go this is the best of the best these are the top 5 features of android 4.4 kitkat technically this is only a point one update from Android 4.3 but for those of you who thought this is going to be a super minor update that didn't really matter think again there is a lot of awesome stuff going on here so I'll have a whole bunch of links right below that like button for all of the important things that will cover everything I'm talking about but without any further ado check this out number five is the dialer and I think a lot of us forget that ultimately the smartphones that we use today were originally designed to place and receive phone calls so the dialer is improved in android 4.4 and it's improved in both the functionality and the design the design is different because it is uh first of all it organizes your most frequently contacted people up at the top by default so that's nice and convenient it also brings a new flat clean simple design that we'll see more in Android but we'll get to that in a second the functionality now is also upgraded it acts as a search box in the most convenient way possible so right now there's a search box up at the top of the contacts app if you want to search a friend whose name is Eric or something you can type in Eric and it will find Eric's contact but if you want to search for a local business or a local place that's near you like a Starbucks you can type in coffee in the search app and it will find the nearest places that serve coffee near you from Google Maps it will give you their phone numbers and of course their names that is very convenient before is NFC mimicking it's called host card emulation and basically what this does is it allows any device running KitKat whether it has an NFC chip or not to emulate NFC based transactions so you can read and write NFC whether you have the chip or not this hopefully be beneficial to bringing the ability to use NFC stuff like mobile payments to as many devices as possible now a lot of the new devices that get android 4.4 kitkat will probably have an NFC chip anyway but when this gets to older devices that don't have NFC chips they'll be able to use all sorts of awesome features I did a video specifically called the top five best things you can do with NFC all the awesome features so you can check out that annotate or click the link in the description where I have that video so if you want to check out all the awesome stuff that NFC and the NFC based transactions can do for you that's where it is 4:3 is the design update and it's this is all about the looks basically here KitKat has changed a lot of the elements that we've gotten used to in Android since like Android 4.0 with a very hollow look but they're a lot flatter there are a lot simpler and I really like a lot of most notable is the new transparency of the buttons along the bottom and the notification bar up top and also the gray new time and battery icon and all the indicators up top are also now that flat gray low there's also a slightly adjusted system-wide font in Android all the different stock apps are updated with Android and they all have this new clean design to them and even the touch responsiveness on the bottom buttons is is much neater it's much more subtle so overall it has a very nice cleaned up look that I like too but it definitely keeps the beautiful it keeps the beautiful holo stuff it brings fullscreen album art to your lockscreen we're listening to music it brings also these new full screen apps that can take advantage of hiding your system icon buttons and your notifications up top and basically immerses you in this full immersion mode is what they call it and actually now brand-new to stock Android you can actually tap the screen swipe down from the top to find those notifications in a full screen app you couldn't do this on Android before but now when you're gaming if your phone buzzes you have to close the app to check to see what that notification was now you can swipe down an emersion rather than find it so overall there is a flatter cleaner look to all the apps inside of KitKat and the operating system itself and I like the new look and I think it's very subtle but it's also a definite improvement from Android 4.3 to 4.4 number two is streamlined performance and this is arguably the most important update to all of Android 4.4 KitKat in fact when you take a look at the blog post and the official page announcing the new update it says at the top of the blog post KitKat brings all of androids most innovative most beautiful and most useful features to more devices everywhere I'm not actually doing this like giving you the newest version of Android but they are facilitating this by seriously lowering the system requirements of Android 4.4 KitKat and this is a big deal because usually going from an older version of an OS to a newer one the system requirements naturally get bumped up as technology moves forward but the newest version of Android will run smoother faster and more efficient and more responsive Leon devices with as little as half a gigabyte of RAM the OS itself is much more memory efficient and they've streamlined major components of Android so the whole thing including multitasking will be much faster and they've introduced new API is to help your favorite developers make great apps that will run smooth and more responsive on way more devices especially as those with lower specs this kind of make specs even less important than they were before there's also even this new built-in setting called process stats so you know how before you can see exactly how much storage each app was using on your Android device so you can tell when you filled up your internal storage they're going to have this app called process stats which will look like the same thing for your RAM so you can see exactly how much RAM your individual running applications are using and it will give you a better contextual idea better visual of well whether or not you need more RAM if you bought a device that can't quite handle all your multitasking or if you're doing just fine with 1 or 2 gigabytes in terms of bringing this to more devices it's launching right now on the Nexus 5 which is shipping now so you can go get one and I think they really missed out on a huge opportunity here to update their Nexus S and their Galaxy Nexus even to this latest version to really show how serious they are about supporting older phones and lower end specs but they're not as far as we know right now they're updating the Nexus 4 Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 the Google Play editions are going to be right afterwards and soon right after that we'll see carriers and manufacturers start to announce when their updates are going to roll out to their devices and that brings us to number one which is Google search and Google now smarter everywhere first of all in your home screen on the launcher you'll be able to swipe all the way to the left and get to Google now which is very conveniently accessed similar to the way that global search was inside iOS 6 and of course you can also still swipe up from the bottom soft buttons to also get to Google now and on the Snapdragon 800 Nexus 5 you're going to be able to just start saying OK Google and it'll start opening the Google search and searching so it'll be constantly listening to you when you're on your home screen and this is as far as we know only the Nexus 5 because that's not dragging 800 enabling it so it won't hit battery life but that's pretty cool that it's there and like I said the new contacts app is also basically a Google Search app the dialer will let you search through Google Maps and local business listing there are a ton more improvements new cards and new optimizations into Google now I called Google now personally one of the best products of 2012 and it seems like Google realizes how important and how unique and how good this product is they're putting a lot of effort and research into making this a better product for 2013 and that's easily why it gets number one pretty much no other company has a product as powerful as this that ties into other Google services and that has so much potential especially so the more Google develops this the more I'm going to talk about how great it is because I've done separate videos about how goob Google now is and it's awesome and I encourage you to check it out if you haven't already now of course this wouldn't be complete without some honorable mentions so I got to give a shout out to the hangouts app which is being updated alongside KitKat because it is getting SMS and MMS support so in the newest version of Android it's actually the default messaging apps so it'll be in your dock you're going to be seeing a lot more of hangouts now and I actually like that because the default messaging app before really isn't all that great it's pretty bare so I'm proud of how far hangouts has come in such a short period of time and now it will be the default hangouts and SMS and MMS app I got to give another mention to the new SMS API it sounds boring but once you realize how good it is it's great usually before when you want to set a new third-party SMS app messaging app you have to disable the notifications in one and then enable the notifications in the other to fully switch over it's going to be one click now with the new API and KitKat so if you want to set some other third-party SMS app as your default it'll literally be sending those messages directly into that third-party app you don't have to worry about switching on and off notifications it'll go directly into your app of choice so if you don't like hangouts you can use some other messaging app and it'll be your default and it only take one click and there's even more little things like there's going to be the emojis now everywhere where you'll use that Google keyboard you'll be able to print pretty much anything on any printer with Google Cloud Print and able there's a new downloads app the old one was really quite bare so this one's much more organized and KitKat will also now support pedometers IR blasters and all sorts of other low powered sensors so there's lots of little tweaks behind the scenes and even littler things like when you get a phone call from a number that Google sees in maps is a local business it'll do an image search and find a relevant image to that business and show that as the caller ID along with the name of the business so even if you don't have that business in your contacts you will get a photo and a name in your caller ID because Google knows that that's business it seems by reading the literature that this newest version of Android 4.4 is all about enabling older devices and lower end lower powered devices so for older devices it's going to be all about those carriers and those manufacturers bringing out those updates even this moto X here which is basically on almost stock Android is still running Android 4.2 so would have to leapfrog 4.3 to get the 4.4 update and that's the case with a lot of other older devices I think Google if they want this to happen they really have to push this and make this the number one thing they talked about to those carriers and manufacturers if their relationship is square hopefully older devices almost as old as the Galaxy Nexus will be getting KitKat overall it seems like this is a very solid upgrade to Android this might not be in overhaul if you will but this new Android is definitely smarter a more efficient and very much more Google so there you go be sure to share this video out for people who are wondering about the new Android 4.4 update or wondering what the operating system has anything to do with this is the video to share with them so 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