Android Lollipop 5.0 Smartphone Edition

Android's sweet new "Lollipop" flavour brings security improvements and easier ways to view and respond to notifications. The new Google software for mobile devices even lets you lend out your phone without worrying about a friend circulating your naked selfies on Facebook.

It's a shame many phone manufacturers that use Android believe they have to tweak it extensively to make the software theirs and not Google's. Messing around with it only confuses customers and steers app developers toward working on iPhone versions first, where there is more uniformity - and thus incentive to incorporate the latest features.

Assuming your phone maker is running Lollipop in its purest form, here's what you'll get:

Nonetheless, Lollipop is a worthy upgrade that will hopefully come to your Android device - unfettered - soon.

- NDTV Gadgets