Gadgetory

this is Danberg with the verge and we're looking at android 4.4 kitkat on the new Nexus 5 as you can see there's been a handful of different design tweaks including the translucent menu bar and a little animation when you go in and view the apps it's a little bit like iOS 7 but not as big of an extreme change as iOS 7 was for Apple one of the changes is going to be to the dialer and it operates a lot like the Yellow Pages now so instead of just having your contacts in there you can also search for nearby restaurants and different places of interest it'll show you and allow you to contact directly from the dialer also Google now is going to be a lot smarter and it's going to be able to give you information based on your location as well as shows you might like and different sites you might like and it also directly directly into the app that you want so Google has combined Google Hangouts and SMS so they're now one in the same so by default when you get your phone there is no messages app however if you don't like that you can always download a third-party application and set that as your default messaging app but as it stands you're going to be using hangouts a lot more on android kitkat so overall there has been a lot of changes under the hood essentially it's going to make the operating system run a lot better on lower end phones Google promises updates to the nexus phone and the Google Play edition soon