IndiaONE – Music app for iPhone and iPad
IndiaONE – The sounds of India is an app for music lovers that is available for Apple iPad and iPhone. This app offers a range of features including a huge collection of Music, News in three languages, Live Radio, a Mood player and Karaoke channel. All the music will be updated every 30-45 days at no extra cost for the period of subscription.
Features of The IndiaONE app for iPhone and iPad
Current hits and classic songs from Indian movies of your choice.Non filmy music of various genres such as Ghazals, Religious, Folk, Indipop and LoungeNews updates from BBC World servive in English, Hindi and Tamil.Live Radio in Hindi and TamilExclusive unplugged sessions with the best Indian artists recorded LIVE at the RadioONE studios.Top 13 exclusive songs from India’s best Bollywood Celebrities.Mood player that shuffles music and a 1000-song karaoke channel (only on iPad version) with tracks from the 70s to the latest film songsSeparate KaraokeONE app is also available for Indian Bollywood music.The IndiaONE app is available for the iPhone at $0.99 and for the iPad at $1.99. The KaraokeONE app is available for iPhone for $0.99.
Passionate about Mobile phones and Gadgets. Love to explore new and innovative mobile phone Apps.Nokia Lumia 800: Nokia Drive and Nokia Music hands-on
Much has been written about how Nokia would attempt to differentiate their Windows Phone 7 smartphones to other Microsoft OEM licensees. Well now that we have our hands on the new Lumia 800, we can just see how much, if at all, Nokia has customised the UI in their quest to set themselves apart.
As you can see from the video embedded below, the core Windows Phone 7 experience has been left untouched. The love it or hate it Metro UI is fast, sleek and benefits from Microsoft’s rigid chassis 1 specifications. The first generation Windows Phone 7 devices all contains the same single core 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and nobody complained about the performance.
The one found in the Lumia 800 is clocked at 1.4 GHz which is quite a speed bump. Some has mentioned that the Lumia 800 would benefit more from a dual core processor. Perhaps when Apollo or Tango arrives with 720p display support, but right now Windows Phone 7 is so well optimised it just does not need one.
Many people have asked and I can confirm that Nokia Pure is no where to be seen. In fact there is still no way of changing the default typeface on Windows Phone 7. I doubt many people will mind. Segoe is a modern and clean sanserif typeface that works really well with the Metro interface. So much so I have even used it in my previous Nokia N8. Still it would be nice to see font changing as an option in future Windows Phone updates.
There is one small consolations for those seeking for a more “Nokia experience”. Under the theme settings you will find a new accent called ‘Nokia Blue’. This is the same hue of Nokia’s famous blue logo, and it looks great on the Lumia 800's AMOLED screen.
The Lumia 800 ships with two Nokia-exclusive applications, Nokia Music and Nokia Drive. There is an icon for Nokia Maps, but this takes us to a Nokia Maps app-holder page on the Marketplace, plus it isn’t a Nokia exclusive application. Nokia has also announced an ‘exclusive’ ESPN application, but this was no where to be seen on my Lumia 800. Besides, an ESPN app isn’t exactly that exciting.
Nokia Drive is a free voice navigation application. It works exactly like Nokia Maps on Symbian, complete with 3D landmarks, 2D/3D and satellite mode, and access to a huge database of POIs. Nokia Drive has an advantage over competing maps applications in that you will have access to maps from over 100 countries and these maps are available in offline as well.
Maps are available to download in regions or whole countries. For example the entire UK maps is available as a 231MB download, but you can also download the maps for Wales separately. Map downloads is fast. It took the device ten minutes to download the entire UK map via WiFi. Unfortunately it is not possible to queue downloads.
Voice guided navigation aren’t unique, but at least with Nokia Drive you will know you get this for free with guaranteed access to the latest maps and POIs during the entire lifetime of your device.
The second exclusive application that Nokia has provided is Nokia Music. We all know about Spotify, and that Spotify requires subscription to listen to streaming music on mobiles. It also isn’t available in many countries. Well Nokia Music is similar (in a stripped down sort of way), but instead of paying US$10 a month, you get the streaming bit for free. The application is integrated into the Zune music app.
What Nokia Music provides is a easy interface to prepackaged radio stations that has already been customised for different regions and genres. Nokia has announced that stations can be downloaded for offline listening, though I have found no way of doing so. As the Lumia 800 I have is a prototype device running on none-finished software, this may be possible on the retail version.
In any case, the app makes music discovery a rather easy process and most customers will find being able to get music right out of the box with a new phone to be a compelling experience. Once you start listening to a music you can control the jukebox from anywhere within the OS, even on the lock screen. Pressing the volume button will toggle a pop up control.
As Nokia Music is also a music store, you can easily purchase and download music directly from the phone. Tracks costs from £0.79 and you can buy them individually or the album as a whole (which tends to work out cheaper). Album prices are also competitive. Nirvana’s Nevermind for example costs £4.99 on the Nokia Music store, a full 50p cheaper than if bought via Amazon UK’s MP3 store. Track previews are available for each tracks.
Before I sign off. I have received questions regarding Internet Sharing function on the Lumia 800, or the lack of it. I can confirm that there is no Internet Sharing feature on my Nokia Lumia 800, but Nokia has also confirmed that they are working on making this feature available.
Android tablets and Tablet S now to get Sony Music Unlimited
The video streaming platform has been on the tablets for some time now, but now Sony wants a simple music streaming app which can run on any of the Android tablets, which will also provide access to the cloud based music unlimited network. it will be attainable via download , an app for any Android tablet junkie to freak out on, though this app will be hitting on Sony Ericsson’s Tablet S first.
This is what Sony had to say: “As one of the largest digital entertainment services, Sony Entertainment Network aims to bring new ways for consumers to enjoy digital music and video,” said Tim Schaaff, President, Sony Network Entertainment. “The launch of the Music Unlimited service on Sony Tablet marks one of our many significant steps to satisfying the mobile demands of our current consumers while opening up our cloud-based music service to completely new audiences.”
The user can now navigate between album view and the inventory view, which is quite agile, and actualize playlists quicker and identify the related artists with much ease. Now the service has been at hand for various Android smartphones for quite some time, the latest v1.2 app allows tablets to avail the service. The modernized application thus brings a very modified and harmonized user interface.
A 180-day trial of the Basic plan absolutely free at this moment for Sony Tablet S users. This exciting new service is also accessible in nine various nations with an elementary subscription at $3.99 monthly and the premium subscription at only $9.99 monthly.
Samsung launches My Music and My Movies app for Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Tab 750
Samsung has launched 2 new entertainment apps, My Music and My Movies for the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy Tab 750. The My Music app has a huge collection of music with the album details, artists details, critic’s music reviews and much more for complete music junkies. The My Movies app is powered by BIGFlix and it offers huge collection full length movies of different genres for free.
The My Music app allows the users to listen, purchase and browse songs from a catalogue of over three million songs and around 11,000 music videos. You could browse the songs from Bollywood, International, Devotional and lots more. The latest songs are available from the new arrivals and there are also featured, hot picks and all songs. You can also mark the songs as favorites and search the song by name or artist.
The My Movies app lets you watch 400 full-length movies in various languages, music videos and the latest movie trailers. The movies can either be streamed over Wi-Fi or a 3G connection. The movies are categorized as new, popular, rated and you can also search for movies manually. It offers over 2000 hours of Videos – Movies, Trailers, TV shows & Music Videos.
Download the My Music app for the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 from the Samsung Apps store. The My Movies app is also available from the Samsung Apps store for the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 750. These apps would also support other select Samsung phones and Tablets.
RIM announces BBM Music
Research In Motion (RIM) has announced BBM Music that is their own cloud based music service with the social features like music sharing and discovery for their BlackBerry smartphone. The BBM Music is powered by cloud music service provider, Omnifone and it has millions of songs from leading music companies such as Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI.
The BBM music lets you listen to full tracks from the friend’s profile, build a music profile with 50 of your favorite songs with an option to swap 25 songs each month and create multiple playlist. You can invite BBM friends to BBM Music and can share the songs with the BBM Music Community, view what your friends are listening to, and comment on their songs and playlists.
The BBM Music app also shows recent updates of the song added or removed, playlist created and comments made by friends in the timeline view. The songs can also be saved to the phone to listen them offline.
The closed beta trial of the BBM Music service starts from today in Canada, the United States and the UK. The users need to have the latest BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) 6 installed to use some of the social features.
The BBM Music would be available later this year at $4.99 USD in Australia, Canada, Columbia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Use Your iPod Music Library Songs As Alarm Clock Sound On Your iPhone With This Jailbreak Tweak
If you’re like me, you depend on your iOS device to wake you up on time everyday, thanks to its built-in alarm clock, which is part of the Clock app, which has been built into iOS since the very beginning. Yet, iOS only allows pre-defined tones to be played as the alarm tone; why not play some soothing music instead?
Enter PlayAwake; a new jailbreak tweak that lets users assign any audio file from their music library to ring as an alarm. In order to do achieve this, this tweak adds a new panel to the Clock app that allows users to choose between the standard sounds, such as the well-known ‘Marimba’ one, or a song from the local iOS library of songs, which you synced from iTunes of course. Choosing the latter will bring up the whole library, allowing users to pick the song of their choice, as you can see below.
This tweak doesn’t add any icon to the homescreen, making no changes to how iOS operates other than the new entry in the aforementioned Clock app. Yet, respringing the device might be necessary before this tweak takes effect, yet no further action is required after that.
This tweak is available for $1.99 from the BigBoss repository. In Cydia, just search for PlayAwake and select the first result to install this tweak, unless you have other repos punched in already. For nearly $2, the price might be steep for a tweak that simply adds a small feature that should be available in iOS by default, and perhaps someday Apple might just implement it as default. But, if you’re looking to wake up to your favorite song instead of a boring built-in tone, PlayAwake is meant for you.
This tweak requires iOS 4.0 or above, just like most tweaks being created today, and also requires you to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch. You can follow our step by step guide posted here to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch on iOS 4.3.5 using Redsn0w (or PwnageTool), or on iOS 4.3.3 using Redsn0w, PwnageTool, Sn0wbreeze and JailbreakMe (that last one being the easiest).
Although the steps mentioned in these guides are easy to follow, it’s recommended that you have some knowledge on iOS diagnostic tasks, such as entering DFU and restoring your device if you ever wish to undo your jailbreak. Don’t worry, you probably won’t want to.
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Nokia X1-01 Dual SIM music phone announced
Nokia has announced a new dual SIM music phone X1-01. This is a music phone with the speaker that can produce up to 106 phon of loudness. X1-00 that was announced a couple of months back, has similar features, but this is a dual SIM GSM phone with dual standby.
1.8 inch (128 x 160 pixels ) 65,000 colours, TFT displayDimensions – 112.2 x 47.3 x 16 mm and weighs 91.05 gDual SIM with dual standbyExpandable external memory up to 16 GB with MicroSD500 phone book entries and 250 SMS storageStereo FM radio and music player3.5mm audio jackDedicated music keys and torch1320 mAh Li-Ion battery with 786 mins of talk time and 43 days of standby and 36 h music playbackThe speaker is clear and doesn’t distort even at higher volume. This phone also has option to setup separate logo, music signature and ringtone for the two SIM cards. This phone would be available in 5 colors such as, Red, Ocean Blue, Orange, Dark Grey and white.
X1-01 will be available in this quarter of 2011 in India, China, South-East Asia/Pacific region, Middle East and Africa, Eurasia and Brazil. This phone is priced at 34 Euros without taxes, which is around Rs 2,161.
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Music Player With Lyrics Available For Nokia 5800 XM, X6 And 5230
Nokia recently released a new update for its popular touchscreen phones, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, X6 and 5230. The latest update comes with the new Music Player with lyrics. The new feature displays the embedded lyrics of the song playing on your device. This update is currently available only via Over-The-Air (OTA).
How to Enable This Feature?Download and install the updateRestart your phoneGo to Music PlayerClick on Options menu of Now Playing view andEnable the feature when lyrics are availableTo download this update, go to Menu > Applications > SW Update. You may have to wait for few days, before this update is available in your region. If you find something new, let us know in the comments below.
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