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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com one of my favorite features of Android 2.1 and above is the live wallpaper did you know you can actually get a ton of extra free live wallpaper from the Android Market in this video we're going to go through some of the best ones that I found for live wallpapers for your background on your Android 2.1 or above device let's take a look okay so to do this who really I just spent some time here in the market I searched for a live wallpaper most of these are free there's a couple that cost money I'm going to show you one that cost $2 but I actually think it's worth the price you'll see why in a second so let me jump into the wallpaper setting and I'm going to show you some of these that I've picked up I'm going to save this one for last at the top this one's called Cube live wallpaper you just saw you can either choose a cube or a multi-sided object to spin in the background and there are some settings you can change the background color to a variety of different things pretty customizable and so on and so forth and let's go down a little bit we've something called living colors this is another freebie very very simple kind of hypnotic with some colors exploding we can change some of the settings change the colors and so on so if we set this wallpaper again very simple it just hangs up in the background gives you some colors pretty fun it's going to live wallpapers again scroll down we have something called mary jane free which shows you a certain botannical in the background of your phone with the leaves kind of moving gently so that could be fun let's go back and go down a little bit all these are built in here's one that's really cool it's called pond clock live wallpaper you can actually play a game of a pond right on your phone you can go into settings and change some settings like the game mode where you can actually interact with the background or it just goes by itself I want to show you it with the interaction so I can grab ahold of one of these ponds and I can play pong in my background if I'm bored or I can just let it go by itself and you can see the computers playing against me right now so that's sort of fun even if you have a lot of icons on the screen you can still move around paddle so that's pretty cool jump back in here this one's called silhouettes which is again another hypnotic sort of basic wallpaper that just has a little bit of motion so if we stop we can see the clouds are kind of moving and the trees just a little bit very simple see what else we have that we didn't talk about yet the matrix of course this is the what you would expect you get these kind of green symbols in the background sort of from the Matrix movie and there are some settings associated with that how fast the character goat characters go how big they are and again everything I've shown you so far is free and you can just get them by searching for whatever the title is in the Android Market so there's anything else I want to show you down here let's go to the top this is the one that actually costs two bucks but I think it's really well worth it you're going to see why in a second it's a koi pond on your phone and there are a lot of settings you can change the number of fish you can change the fish speed lots of other settings but it actually has some cool functionality so here it is we've got these fish in the background and now what I can do actually is pick up an icon and drop it and it will actually feed the fish so let me move an icon and I'll slide over to the left and you'll see these little things come down they're actually a little Android robots that are that look like fish food sort of and when you do this the fish come onto the screen and there's a little Android guy and the fish are going towards the food because they want to be fed some other things you can do you can tap on the fish which will vibrate your phone and the fish will sort of run away and there's some more Android food so pretty fun again this one costs $2 it probably uses up more battery life than the other ones because it's more graphic intensive but I find it very relaxing to have fish swimming on the home screen of my Nexus One I don't know about you so I'll make a list on pocketnow.com of all these live wallpapers that I've talked about and please in the comments there's a live wallpaper that you like and that you use let us know maybe we'll take a video of it if it's really cool please give the video a thumbs up if you liked it and subscribe to our channel for more smart phone videos that's it for now