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no this is Dancy for with the verge and we're taking a look at the latest version of pocket cast for Android pocket cast is a pod caching app so it lets you listen to podcasts on your smartphone or tablet and version 4.0 has been completely redesigned with a new style and interface to complement the latest versions of Android the first thing you have here are your pocket our podcasts that have been subscribed to and downloaded pretty standard fare there they're also features a discovered mode where you can find new podcasts to listen to and subscribe to them pretty quickly and simply pocket cast supports both video and audio podcasts so you can watch video or you can also listen to audio podcasts you have the option to stream or download a podcast while your to listen to it you got controls to easily rewind or fast-forward you can change the playback speed when you've fully downloaded it to speed it up if you want and you have the ability to share podcasts or episodes via links through other apps and then you've got some lockscreen control or notification controls here but unfortunately there's no widget for this particular version of the app you also have playlists here that you access unplayed podcasts by audio or video type and which ones you've downloaded and you can mark things as read and delete them from here if you want the only problem that we have with these is that they do not automatically delete once you reach a certain limit so you can't set a specific limit a number of podcasts that you want to save and you'll have to manually delete them if you need to free up space on your phone's internal storage the last thing that's really cool about the new version of podcasts is it lets you sync between devices so you can sync your podcast playlists and you're listening status between your phone and tablet if you want you can pick up pocky cast from the google play store now for 399