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hello everyone this is Anton denied from pocketnow.com Google showed up the new android market yesterday and it brings a brand new graphic user interface a whole new concept to buying applications whatever you've known from the old google android market on your android smartphone does not apply anymore instead we have a great looking a little bit windows from 7 inspired google android market and we will take a look at it right now and we are back the rollout process for the android market has already been started and some of the users already had the Android Market install but if you are not that lucky you might have to wait a couple of weeks until the notification gets to your smartphone luckily the Android Market the APK file itself has been leaked to the internet and i'll post a link on how to get it we got it we installed it we have it right here and we have to say it looks really good now some might debate that google is taking some elements from Windows Phone 7 especially the live tiles now these blocks right here are not animated or at least are not yet animated maybe Google would try to animate them and fit some more information to the same screen but we have to say we like the new design because it brings you these blocks of information it fits more information on the screen it's easier to discover applications to go through them and to navigate the android market itself now you can see at the top that you have several windows to click through and we'll start right from the left where you can choose your category and it's scrollable of course featuring all the categories in the android market for whatever you want games books business comics so on and so forth swiping one more will bring you to the main screen which is the featured application screen this screen consists of blocks of applications which are permanently rotated are featured and if you don't know what to download or what to purchase this is where you would start and from here you can start your application discovery you can see some fixed blocks here like the games or staff choices and tapping on them will bring you right to the appropriate screen where you can discover the applications themselves let's jump back and we'll get to the screen a little bit later flicking one more will take you to the top paid screen where you can find all the applications which are in the top pay category but the layout itself has been you can see that now there are two four six eight ten ten a half let's remain with 10 applications displayed at once on the screen with the appropriate icon title and the developer plus the Stars ratings and prices so we have lots of information at a single glance and going to tap into tapping the title of one will get you to the application page which has also been revamped you can see a search icon on the top a share icon right next to it plus you have the item description with the icon the price now this is in Romanian currency because we're not Romania but it changes according to your location then you will see very very much iOS like display of the screen shots which are scrollable and this is the same which you would get from from an iphone experience tapping on the screen shot itself brings you a large full screen screen shot so that you can see how the application would look on your phone further down you see the ratings description reviews information about developer related applications and of course if you want to flag something as inappropriate which we don't want to do right now basically Google is trying to make the whole discovery purchase download process as simple as it gets and this is good news both for users and for developers because the quicker the application is discovered and bought the better the experience which Google is trying to deliver now going even more to the left you have the top free application category top row singing applications top new paid applications of course these always change according to the application submitted to me to the market top new free applications and this is where you want to spend most of your time if you only want you to discover applications and download just for the heck of it and trending and this is the last one getting back to the home screen you can tap on apps and it will bring you straight to the featured applications of course the new android market also supports landscape mode if you want to switch for a particular reason to landscape it rearranges the blocks very very well it fills the screen so you don't have empty space information well except this one right here at the bottom which of course will be taken care of I believe but it looks nice but it doesn't give you a reason to switch to landscape except if you own a qwerty keyboard which is a slide out the aspect and the mode in which the new market looks best is portrait now tapping on the menu button will bring you the small menu at the bottom which you've gotten use to buy now which contains the my apps which is basically a list of all the applications installed on your smartphone and whenever you have an update available you either get a notification in the notification bar or you have a small update text right here so that you can know there's a new application version available for your smartphone getting right back we have a Settings icon which brings you to a screen where you can configure whether you want to receive ads or not this is rather interesting and you can set the level of content filtering currently we have all applications shown let's get back and we have the accounts where you can choose which accounts are tied to the android market itself under smartphone plus your help so this is how the new android market looks the user interface has been completely rethought revamped its taking a couple of kids from Windows Phone 7 and from Apple's iTunes but it's for the best we like it and hope you liked it too if you did please give us a thumbs up this was entering the united front pocket naw Kham showing in the brand new revamped google android market thank you very much for watching you