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android lollipop has finally arrived well sort of I'm Joe Levi with pocket now let's go hands-on with the latest preview release of Android lollipop so as we can see here this is Android version 5.0 lollipop running on my Nexus 5 it's build number at LP x 13 d as in delta so what's new obviously we've got all the really cool animations and whatnot that we had in the past but let's look at some other things so we've got the revisited look at some of the icons the iconography and whatnot really neat scrolls very fluid battery life on this has been pretty good you'll notice I've got this interesting little star icon up here in my notification bar what that is I had some people trying to contact me and I decided you know what I want to just silence some of those things while I do this video you know so I'm not interrupted in the middle of shooting well what I did was came in here and adjusted my volume down until i get to vibrate and you can see here i can now turn all of my notifications down or none for 54 minutes i've already set this a little bit or just get priority alerts so no alerts priority alerts or all alerts coming through and then i could set that indefinitely or for some amount of time i could set this overnight if I wanted to so hey go to bed for eight hours there you go that should probably be a little bit more than that like 10 or 12 but we might be able to see some of that in the future there are some of these where you can set the interruptions for messages calls not calls you know whatever you want in here the downtime for priority interruptions can set those so this is kind of like quiet hours very nice I like it a lot and it it's going to take a little bit of getting used to you can see I haven't configured anything in here but I definitely will going forward let's go back home you'll notice that Google now has some interesting headlines up here kind of dividing up your news in two different blocks so a nice way it's done that a lot of other things have stayed the same but one thing that I really like I can't show you right here I'm going to have to throw some screenshots up here I haven't gone in and configured anything okay what I did when I went through and set this up it went and grabbed all of my layouts all of my icons all of everything down here in the folders it did that for me but it had little grayed out areas where you know the apps weren't installed yet ultimately once they did get installed then they came up and had some little configurations that I had to go through to adjust the settings of the various widgets and whatnot but I mean look at that it's it's just amazing it carried over all of my settings one thing I didn't do that i wish i could have when i set this up it was i had to wipe it was a fresh install but it asked me during setup hey if you're coming from a new phone hold it your old phone up to the back and through NFC it could automate that setup process so making it very very easy let's take a quick jump into some of our settings a one finger pull down shows you notifications that you can swipe away and then persistent notifications that you can't if you want to get more information you can pull down again or if you want to you can pull with two fingers to get right into that to go into your quick toggles you're just right there we can turn our flashlight on and off we can go into the deeper settings that will bring this up where you can come in here and modify Wi-Fi modify Bluetooth data usage and more what I really want to show you though is right down here inside security now I've got a pin lock set up right now it's set to automatically lock in my device after 30 seconds after it's gone to sleep except when it's unlocked by smart lock so smart lock over here there are some things that you can do I'm going to put my pin in off camera if I can get it right now you'll notice I've got some devices in here trusted devices and then a trusted face this is your biometrics so all of you Apple fans out there that have the touch to unlock with the touch ID Android can do the same thing but it uses your face you used to be called face unlock but right now it's called a trusted face and I do have that enabled trusted devices now are any bluetooth or NFC devices that you want to add in here so I've got my moto 360 that I'm wearing on my wrist right now and because that is there and connected my device is never going to lock now if my device walks away and the two devices are no longer connected to one another at that point then that trusted device connection isn't there and to be able to access my phone you're going to have to put in the pin to get into it you notice I've got other things down here I've got my LG headset as well which I have turned off I wearing that around my neck but I wanted to show you what it looks like so if I've got my bluetooth headset on right there I can automatically unlock and bypass that that lock screen I still have to swipe to unlock but I don't have to put in the pin or password if I wanted to do that we can add any trusted device that's Bluetooth or NFC I haven't played with NFC yet so make sure you stay tuned we'll get some of that out I've probably in an upcoming article but all you would do is enable NFC and then set up your NFC devices really kind of cool what else do you want to see it's pretty much what we've been through before just with smoother animations and some more interesting features and functionality that we're going to dig into as the days go by there's something else that you think is new in Android lollipop that wasn't in a previous version of Android L one of the preview editions make sure you let us know that down in the comments along with what your favorite new feature is so that's a quick look at the latest preview release of Android lollipop version 5.0 running on the Nexus 5 if you liked what you saw here make sure you give the video a thumbs up if you want to see what the final version 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