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>> "And the new calendar app only allows you to see 6 hours at a time, so you can't get an overview of your day."

Try the 'agenda' view which does exactly that.

I was also going to debunk most of your other complaints because I know they're false but I don't have my Lollipop device with my at the moment.

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You probably mean schedule, and no it doesn't as it shows only 6 or so items per page and isn't good for glancing at. I can't glance at it and see I've a meeting in the morning, I've got to read it to see when the appointments are. There's a reason the old paper calendars work so well, cause you can just glance at them.

The old calendar also had a week view where you could see most of the week and what was on. Now you're constantly having to scroll.

As for the rest, how can you debunk what actually happens? If you don't have your lollipop device on you, that probably means it's not a phone...

You can tap on the month to get a monthly view.

No you can't. Tapping on the month shows you the days in the month, not your calendar events for the month.

Yup, agenda view is great for a full day. Settings in Chrome turns off the tab integration. On the lock screen you can slide up from anywhere on the screen (which then takes me to the slide code screen). The rest of the stuff - I guess some personal preference comes into it? But I'm thoroughly enjoying 5.0. Made a few tweaks to the default settings and it's great. Feels soooo much faster.

Well, the new calendar app is ridiculously bad. You can't get back the old "normal" calender view, lots of screen space is wasted in every window and the 1-month overview now is totally useless without any indicators.

Compared to that, the new Gmail and Maps apps are almost good...

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