Back in June, Google gave us a chance to see the future of Android as a mobile operating system. The tech giant introduced us to Android 5.0 Lollipop, which was boldly described as Android's most
significant release to date.
significant release to date.
An overstatement? Well, we don't think so. We're several months into the future now and we're holding Android 5.0 in our hands, running on our Google Nexus 5 smartphone in its nearly finalized state. To put it briefly, Lollipop rocks, and if you want to know why, here's what we have to say about the platform's new, sweet flavor.
Before we proceed, though, we'd just like to make a disclaimer of sorts: what we're dealing with here is the stock, vanilla version of Android 5.0 Lollipop, as seen on Nexus and more recent Motorola devices, but not on smartphones by popular brands such as Samsung, HTC, or LG. Handsets that use custom user interfaces will most probably get most functional improvements from 5.0 Lollipop, along with some of the visual enhancements, but we expect those UIs, such as TouchWiz and Sense, to preserve their custom look and feel to a large extent. read more
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