Google set to unveil Android 5.0 lollipop

Google is to release version 5.0 of its Android operating system, codenamed Lollipop, on Friday. The company describes the update as a "quantum leap forward", thanks to its revamped design and new features. Android already has an 84.7% share of global smartphone shipments, according to research company IDC. But engineering chief, Hiroshi Lockheimer, told the BBC that among his team's goals was making Android more appealing to the business sector. "We've made a concerted effort around focusing on the enterprise-use case," he said. "If you think about it most people only carry one device. "The one device that they carry [should] work for various scenarios in their life -obviously for personal use, but also if they want to use it for corporate purposes. "We wanted to make sure that Lollipop is designed in such way that corporations are happy to endorse it." One example of this, he said, was the ability for a user to have both a personal and work "personality" on a single device - and the ability to switch "seamlessly" between them. The two personalities would let apps access different sets of stored data, allowing the user's employer to monitor the contents of one partition but not the other.