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true to its word Google is releasing Android lollipop version 5.0 for the LG Nexus 4 let's go hands-on and see what you can expect when you get the OTA or sideload lollipop on your Nexus 4 so here we've got the LG Nexus 4 complete with its very sparkly back cover I've got a SAG invisible shield over the back of that just because yeah exactly how slippery they are so let's go ahead and fire this up now this I went ahead and downloaded the system image and I flashed this which means I wiped everything out and started all from scratch so let's go ahead and take a look in here we'll do our double pulldown that works we can do our two finger pulldown let's go ahead and go into settings and if you notice there was a little rotation there on the COG so we've gotten used to with Android lollipop let's go down to about phone android 5.0 this is indeed the nexus 4 and we are running the lrx 21 t build which is the one that i download and installed now i've only been running this for about a day or a day and a half so far i'm quite impressed the animations are a little bit less fluid than they are in the nexus 5 but the phone itself feels like it's still about the same speed everything is quick I mean you saw that animation right there animated up from the app drawer and everything comes in nice and fast the whole thing just seems nice and fluid let's go ahead and switch over here I don't have any internet connection so we're gonna just kind of skip my my google now but that's ok overall everything is nice everything is quick we've got all the animations that we've become accustomed to you can go out and get this right now today and flash it on your nexus 4 if you want to you don't have to though let's go ahead and switch over to my other nexus 4 I know how it'd be right so this is the OTA it is come in here just a little bit almost 400 megabytes 390 4.4 for this particular model the nice thing about this is you're not gonna lose any of your settings you're not going to lose any data at least that's the theory so what's gonna happen here is we're just gonna go ahead and let that finish up installing it's gonna reboot a couple times while it updates and goes from there while we're here let me go ahead and show you that this in fact is not version 5 this is version 4.4 kitkat in fact running the KTU 84 p build so let's go ahead and just do kind of a side-by-side there so you can see what they look like and this is really hard dual wielding phones so you go ahead and grab that again for you back in about phone so there's our our differences nice animations at the top and bottom over here in the valley pop version let's go back home you can see our our buttons down the bottom very lollipop over here very KitKat over there we'll go back home about the same speed okay about the same go ahead and open the app drawers a little bit quicker over here on on the lollipop version but there you go now everything else is pretty much what you're accustomed to the updates happen the same way you've got all of the new apps that Google is updating so the apps over here the new material design apps are going to look the same as the material design apps and lollipop has on KitKat but all in all it's very nice the big question that we've got is how is battery life going to be using the brand new lollipop version and project Volta which should do better with battery life than the KitKat version like I said we've only had this in hand for about a day day and a half we're curious to find out your experiences too so especially with the battery life and performance let us know down in the comments how the battery life is like on your Nexus 4 running lollipop and stay tuned to our social networks I'm at Joe Levi over on Twitter and over the next several days I'm going to be posting my thoughts and my experiences with the Nexus 4 you won't want to miss out on that for PocketNow showing off the latest and greatest operating systems on well a little bit older hardware I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching and we'll catch you next time