Gadgetory

everybody this is chris welch for the verge and we're taking a look at the latest version of android this is the first preview of Android M it came out today we saw it at Google's i/o keynote and now you can install it on your own Nexus 5 and X 0 6 or your Nexus 9 and once you swipe up from there this basically looks the same as it always has there's a new wallpaper that's the only new wallpaper so far so if you're hoping for more than that you'll have to wait for some updates in the future it's a nice one at least volume controls are far simpler now so if I just toggle them down I can actually just tap up here NEC controls for the system level your alarms notifications things like that so it's a lot less confusing than it was in android 5.0 lollipop so that's simpler the apt or is also much different now it scrolls up and down vertically as opposed to horizontally and you've got a list of your recent apps up here at the top so those are easy to access and you can also search for stuff which should be helpful if you have a lot of stuff on your phone and you can easily find the apps you want so that's new so one of the big folks is today on stage was app permissions Google wants to make it much more simpler and much more straightforward to turn off things that you don't want to have to have access to your contacts your calendar photos stuff like that so now you can actually go into app info and tap on permissions and turn off these things one by one if you don't want facebook to see your photos or your location you can turn those off there's warning that could cause problems for you apps are made to work with these features so turn them off might cause issues but you have the option how to just toggle those off whenever you want to so unfortunately some of the big things showing onstage aren't actually in this first version so now on tap which is the new feature that actually scans your screen and pulls up google now cards that are useful that's not here yet so you can see I've searched for chipotle and chrome if I hold down the Google now button it's not going to do too much for me just yet so hopefully that'll come soon some kind of update to the preview bills but right now you can't use it just yet which is unfortunate it seems very cool and one of the big new features of Android M and there aren't too many and so the same thing goes for tap and pay you can't use Android pay just yet if you go to the tap and pay many you there's nothing here the old version of Google Wallet is still in the store so they still haven't launched Android pay just yet so you can't pay for things in a store yet that will probably come out closer to Android and when it actually launches to everyone they're seeing in q3 of this year so again this is just our first look at the new version of Android it's got a long way to go before it actually comes out it's all phones Google still hasn't gotten lollipop on many phones to begin with it's not about ten percent right now so there aren't too many deep changes here new useful features but stuff like fingerprints don't work yet because there's no fingerprint sensor in the nexus 6 so that'll have to wait for hardware to come out and so for right now it's very early look at what's new and hopefully more is going to come along pretty soon