Initially in the US, the Google Play Music All Access will be launched, costing $9.99 a month with a 30-day free trail. With its web and mobile interfaces feature millions of songs you can play instantly, recommandations, charts and playlists, plus instant radio stations are also added.

The Big G has launched the service and effects immediately for those eager to adopt early in exchange for just a significant saving, Google is cutting the price to just $7.99 for those subscribing before June 30. As a Spotify rival launches today in the United States for $9.99/month, and rejoice yourself, sign-ups can be made before 30th June and get it for 7.99 dollars.

Google at its I/O conference launched All Access in dozens of announcements in San Fransisco. As noted by Android team member Chris Yerga:

“Music unites us, it’s universal . . With current music services, you might have a huge catalog to choose from, but getting that music organized and playing quickly is too hard. We set out to build a music service that didn’t just give you access to a world of music, but helped to guide you through it.”

So, everything from your Google Music locker is automatically pulled into Google Play Music All Access. Under the content you own, rest of an artist has All Access is automatically listed and plays at a tap. To try and add a USP to the multitude of similar offerings, the All Acees Music service will curate a list of songs that auto-updates based upon the kinds of bands and artists you listen to. If you want it to be removed from the songs list, you can simple swipe it away.

Judging by it demonstration, it’s pretty clean and sleek service. More countries will be delighted with Google Play Music All Access soon. with options for instantly queuing up songs. It’s also designed to get music playing as fast possible if you just want your ears filled.

At $7.99 for those keen to jump right in, it’s very attractively priced. The logic behind launching an on-demand music service seems to be that it’s critical part of any phone. Android is incomplete without it. Google Play Music All Access might never become a market leader. When considering Spotify’s huge head start with 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers. Google could heavily promote it if it wants growth, reason behind this is that All Access is located within Android-ubiquitous Google Play store.

Now, with this new MUSIC subscription service, Google strengthens its presence on mobile, which could be getting people buying more Android phones which lead to plenty of other revenue for Google.

The Mountain View company claims this All Access Music service is better for music discoveries than any other and no doubt it is a big case for big company’s. And it’s also apparant just how often the Biggies come up short when it comes to securing licensing agreements for the tracks most folks want to hear.

With this new Google software, it will be starting off in the United States initially before launching to the rest of the world. More details will be surfaced soon about All Access Music, so stay tuned to know how to install, and download music! The updated version of Google Play Music is now live, grab it from here.

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Today, in a tweet, Saurik has stated that he has just launched two apps on the Google Play Store. Yes! You heard right, Saurik now merged into the Android ecosystem, and in a large way. With Winterboard and Cydia Substrate apps in general are two great tweaks debuted on Android platform, now available to download for free.

Actually, to install in iOS, your device must be jailbroken on iOS 4-iOS 6.1.2/6.1.3/6.1.4, and now on Android, both apps require a rooted device. Winterboard in my iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 is the most useful app and it is pretty self explanatory if you’ve ever come across the Cydia app – you can download theme packs to change the homescreen to icons of the Android device experience just like iOS.

Note: Because its super early in the development process, we suspect it’s only a matter of time before things really kick off.

Cydia is obviously filled with awesome themes for Winterboard, and certainly Google Play Store will no doubt be the same as time passes behind. Already it has some Winterboard alternatives such as ADW Launcher, XE launcher and CyanogenMod 10. Which doesn’t need any Android device to be rooted. Cydia’s Winterbaord is worth checking out!

About Cydia Substrate? Being a starter, you’ll need Cydia Substrate in order to install Winterboard and use it, which will be used as the crux of future apps, too. Cydia Substrate won’t actually look like it’s doing anything on its own, mainly it isn’t. Substrate will only enable when another aoo is installed that uses it, just like Winterboard with.

Substrate being a gum that holds the iOS jailbreak system together, and it’s sure to become an integral part what where Saurik intents to take Android development going forward. In my though, your favorite iOS jailbreak tweaks will eventually make their way to Android. Great to hear!

Winterboard on iOS, obviously needs Substrate in order to make that particular tweak of magic happen without any hassle. Both arriving on Android is great news for those who love to theme on their smartphones, and in an pretty easy way. Before you continue, Cydia Substrate requires that you have Android 2.3 Gingerboard and higher installed on your device. How to guide is available right below along with the download link!

(Source: Cydia Substrate / WinterBoard for Android on the Play Store)

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BlackBerry Messenger will hit the Google Play and iOS App Stores this summer, and it will be coming to iOS 6 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices and will also work on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and higer for those on Google mobile OS. BBM app, which announced currently will be a free of charge tool and bring cross-platform messaging between BlackBerry, iOS and Android users.

According to the company’s CEO Thorsten Heins talked about taking BBM to multiple platforms said: “It’s time to bring BBM to a greater audience . . no matter what mobile device they carry.”

When compared to BBM alternatives, the messaging space has drastically changed. With Apple’s BBM copycat service iMessage boasts over 140 million users. Other services like MessageMe, GroupMe and Facebook Messenger boast apparantly large and growing users base. While the WhatsApp, with more than 10 billion WhatsApp messages are sent each day and its user base is easily in the hundreds of millions. In other thoughts, WhatsApp service is widely successful in emerging markets – same as the markets that BlackBerry cites as its core BBM user base.

BBM vs WhatsApp, which also on a ton of platforms – including Windows Phone, Symbian and of course, BlackBerry 10. Although the decision is not perhaps all that surprisng given BlackBerry’s recent situation, it is one of the deal. BBM’s uniqueness is inteded to work in BlackBerry’s favor, drawing in new cunsumers wishing to be a part of the popular network. But the company always sticked with the old fashioned keyboard handsets while likes of Samsung, Apple and HTC amplified with more gorgeous designs, BlackBerry has lost its mobile market share.

The new-look BBM 10 will no doubt go head-to-head with the likes of WhatsApp, which is been a very well established cross-platform app that already boasts million of users worldwide. The company’s CEO Heins also promised that the experience of BBM on both iOS and Android would be fully-fledged, adding: “We’re starting with messaging and groups, but we’ll bring voice, screen share, and of course, channels later on.”

Of course, there are other free services (alternatives to BBM) out there, including Facebook Messenger. Still, Heins has a point about free being a potentially big driver in adoption and described the decision to release BBM now was merely “a statement of confidence,” with BB10 being strong enough without the need for the kicker of the exclusive messaging service.

This summer, we being an BlackBerry Messaging service clients gifted with a better BBM app for iOS and Android users. Let us know what you think about this move looks to be in the interests of driving consumers (back) to BlackBerry?

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G-Drive was launched last year, when Google offered users a 5GB of free Dropbox-style storage to save documents and photos – but Gmail has long had its own, seperate 10GB of storage. In order to expand its space, Google now unifying storage across its products.

By offering a 15GB of unified, free shared storage, Google has tweaked this for all users who now gets a combined fifteen gigabytes of shared storage across Drive, Google+ Photos, and Gmail that can be used as they wish to. Something that should automatically make Drive a lot more useful to many users.

Remind you that Google previously has given you ten gigabytes for Gmail and an additional five gigs of combined storage limit to Drive and Google+ Photos. Now, this change strengthens the Drive brand while simplifying things for consumers, when compared to Apple’s iCloud that comes with only five free gigabytes of shared cloud storage.

According to the Google’s Director of Product Management, Clay Bavor in a blog post over at the Gmail, explains about how the combined storage space simplifies life for consumers:

“For example, maybe you’re a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2 GB in Gmail. Now it doesn’t matter, because you can use your storage the way you want.”

Unfortunately, Google has also offered paid storage tiers across Gmail, Google+ Photos and Drive – previously, users could add 25GB of storage to Drive for $2.49 per month. And was only usable in Gmail, and now that option is gone; the cheapest extended storage option is adding 100GB to your Google account for $4.99 per month. Means, any additional storage you purchase in Gmail also applies to Drive and Google+ Photos.

You can now manage your Google cloud storage and purchase more, with plans starting at $4.99/months for 100GB, using the Drive iPhone/iPad or Android app, or by visiting the official Google Drive storage page. Also check out on how your combined storage space is used by Gmail, Google+ Photos and Drive, buy additional storage and see other stats.

Think about Dropbox’s price for 100GB plan, while Dropbox charges $99.99 for an additional hundred GB, or $9.99 a month. When compared to Google’s offering, its half of the price of Dropbox’s 100GB plan, and with some improvements to Drive had made it even better as a Dropbox alternative than ever.

Google will be rolling out updates to both the Google Drive storage and web interface “over the next couple of weeks.” Stay tuned for a good news soon!

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Sony’s Xperia ZR (also called the Xperia A S0-04E) if you happen to live in Japan, the handset itself is rather fetching to look at, similar to Sony’s Android phones are these days. The device with a 4.6-inch is a beauty and more than skin deep though, and the ZR is apparently waterproof all the way to feet, making it scuba safe.

Like Sony Xperia Z, the ZR will actually take your smartphone into the sea with you, in order to film both HD movies and photos in an awesome HDR format. Xperia ZR poses with a 13-megapixel camera and Exmor RS image sensor – with a dedicated camera button like the one on the Xperia ZL and this new 720p Android smartphone that’s waterproof to 1.5 meters (5 feet).

Imagine about the 1080p video shoot. Under water with a smartphone? The Sony Xperia ZR packs a bunch of whooping specifications beyond that camera. Sony has equipped the ZR handset with a Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core 1.5GH CPU, 2GB RAM, LTE, NFC, Sony’s Walkman album and movie apps. And it runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Yup, an old OS.

The most interesting feature in this newly announced Xperia ZR would be the 4.6″ 720p display that features an OptiContrast OLED screen with BRAVIA technology which claims to reduce glare even when in direct sunlight.

The device will be available in four different colors – Black, Blue, Pink and Cyan – the Japanese company has released two ads pushing its latest device, one of which shows off the features of the smartphone being used for a spot of underwater filming in a swimming pool.

Nevertheless, Sony is continuing its Xperia trend with BRAVIA Engine and forwarded with the Xperia ZR to continue that trend of water-resistant Android phones. Still, no word yet on pricing or availability, but as soon as we hear more we’ll let you know via update.

Update X1: As Xperia Blog grabbed,  the dubbed Xperia ZR is actually the international version of Japan’s upcoming Xperia A SO-04E, which is popping up in the FCC database.

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After months of rumors, Google has officially launched as a part of the existing partner channel program.YouTube with the paid channels appear to be a part of a small pilot program, with just a few channels currently available. YouTube paid channels would appear with the subscriptions that start at $0.99 per month, according to the company’s announcement in a blog post. Each and every channels will offer two weeks of free viewing before charges attacks in and some will provide discounts for those who subscribed (sign up) for an annual subscription.

Currently, examples include the SeSame Street Channel that offers two different subscription options depending on whether the viewer wants their content in HD or not. As part during these early days of paid channels, Sesame Street is available for $1.99 in SD or $2.99 in HD. As part of the new YouTube channels pilot program, some biggies includes Big Think Mentor, Comedy TV, PGA Digital Golf and Pets TV.

Although, there’s a subscription model as well, where $17.99 or $27.99 will get you access to everything served up via the new channel. Similarly to how series’ are sold in iTunes, for example, and YouTube does appear to be trying to compete with the likes of Apple fashion, Netflix Streaming and other media outlets.

The new paid channels will obviously allow high quality content to find a home on YouTube wheress alternatives may shy away from showing the purely ad-based revenue model. The move comes with some risk factor for YouTube and the possibility of generating significant revenue by taking a cut of subscription fees and advertisements that air on the channels.

While, YouTube will be able to compete with an already-established, well settled method of consuming video content. But this new revenue stream will only comment YouTube’s position in toe-to-toe with Netflix fight.

Still in its early stage, paid YouTube channels, we wait with baited breath to see what new content finds its way to the internet’s biggest video content source soon. Would you like paying  to watch videos from your favorite YouTube channels?

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Initially the carpet seller was solely dependent on people entering his shop. But the sense of creating such ad video imposes that the ME Tablet now enables him to take his shop to the world and thuse expand his business horizons in an easy way. The ad portrays important moments in people’s lives and the change brought by the HCL ME Tablets.

Not only that, the ad (TV commercial) also shows how easy it becomes for the masses to find a required job with a better access to job portals and enjoy the latest music. Though, the technology is changing every aspect of the consumers lives, so the Saatchi & Saatchi has pushed its first work for HCL ME Tablets, and demonstrated the positive effect ME Tablets can have in the lives of Indian consumers. Which will connect with their customers and continue to drive the phenomenal growth being enjoyed by ME Tablets.

Official specifications of the HCL’s latest and greatest ME Tablets. Features a 7-inch Capacitive touch screen display and powered with a Cortex A8 1GHz processor, plus 512MB of RAM and fully supports 1080p video and integrated with an internal storage built-in with 4GB onboard and comes with a mini HDMI and external memory card slot (MicroSD card). More off the HCL ME Tablet X1 launched running Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread mobile operating system.

HCL’s ME Tablet is now available in India at the rate of RS.10990 and other countries priced at $244.22. ME Tablet X1 is a android tablet with GHz Processor and 3G Dongle support.

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Internet rumor has it that the Big G have already been rebuffed, with WhatsApp, founded by former Yahoo! pioneers Brian Acton and Jan Koum, is said to be holding out with a final price expected to top out near the hallowed one billion dollars mark ($1 billion).

If the news is accurate, then it would be pretty significant, and also be astonished. Google’s mobile messaging department could surely brace, and draft in WhatsApp would certainly be an easy task for Mountain View-based company to achieve this. Although, it has long since been reckoned that Google’s ‘Babel’ chat will be an all-encompassing communications service, and with GTalk already been most popular, strong feature of the GApps on Android, the sudden action beneficial to the user base WhatsApp has aggregated in its four years of existence.

Google buying WhatsApp, would be a big statement of intent when acknowledged that the quality of its messaging services have fallen below asset. It would also, as many perceived as a motive to Facebook’s Instagram purchase, eliminate one of the best competitors in this field, helping Google quickly place itself among the likes and shares of Facebook Messenger and Apple iMessage soon.

Google has also said to be working on a unified chat system known as Babble. Unless Google Babel is, contrary to reports, not culminating into the great service Google needs to make its presence known in the IM market, then it could be possible why the company is rumored to be considering WhatsApp. However, WhatsApp is seen as providing a simple entry point into Google’s tangled common world which handles tens of billions of messages a day, and if it were to provide the engine for the upcoming Babel service, Google would have one hell of a beast to unleash. (via Gizmodo)

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About SwiftKey, which is keyboard software was always been a mission to bring faster, easier and smarter typing to as many people as possible around the world, and with the Samsung’s launch of its next Galaxy smartphone, the company is truely excited to reveal it carries their swift technology. The key point here is that the company for the first time publicly admitted to powering a handset manufacturer’s keys for S4 users to download its standalone app. Although, it said that the SwiftKey will be the default keyboard on Samsung’s Galaxy S IV.

The SwiftKey’s CTO Ben Medlock said that the keyboard is “at the heart of (Samsung’s) new flagship smartphone” and is hopefully just the first attempt on many Android devices arriving with the company’s voodoo already built-in. In New York, he Ben also said:

“Following our great success with the SwiftKey 4 launch last month, we are excited to confirm that Samsung has chosen SwiftKey’s innovative keyboard technology to be at the heart of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4. This is fantastic progress for our vision of bringing the best touchscreen typing experience to as many people as possible.”

While the company had already in 2013 rolled out SwiftKey 4 to all their app users, introducing their gesture input method SwiftKey Flow, alongside some great features and support for 60 languages in context. An iOS toolkit for SwiftKey Healthcare was also unveiled in the year, and got the best health product service at the prestigious GMA Awards. Now, they added the Galaxy S4 launch to this list as well as exciting work with a host of other SDK partners.

The SwiftKey app will continue to evolve as we seek to make interacting with your phones and tablets even easier and more personalized. Though, there’s still plenty of reasons to download the app from Google play if you dig the customization options and themes of the original. SwiftKey on Galaxy S4? Yes, you’ll be able to start texting and emailing right away since you have already know the keyboard.

Today, we learn’t about Samsung Galaxy S IV drafts SwiftKey to power its smartphone keyboard, but what about Android and TouchWiz? We’ll let you know more about it soon!

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Design: In the past until now, we’ve gone throgh various leaks that suggested the Galaxy S4 would take a pretty similar shape of S III, and the Galaxy Note II. The official announcement has fixed with the notion, presenting a device with a 7.9mm thinner form factor than the Galaxy S III, added more rectangular finish, indicating a reversion somewhat to the appearance of the Galaxy S II.

Although the Galaxy S4 unpacked yet another plastic y looking polycarbonate case, the best looking Galaxy handset to date, and those posing with S III or Note (II) will of course be sold by the aesthetics of this brand-new device.

Talking about the Apple’s iPhone 5 launch, Samsung is in a great position to leap ahead of Cupertino in terms of hradware specifications. Samsung claims the 130g device is “slimmer, lighter and more solid” than any other Galaxy ever released. Measuring at 69.8mm x 136.6mm x 7.9mm, it should be rather easy to fit into the pocket, with this aspect, Samsung has certainly outdone itself here. It comes and to be released with colors other than “White Frost” and “Black Mist”, with Pebble Blue having been dropped, if only temporarily.

Display: The diameter of the new screen spans an impressive 5 inches, offering a whopping 441 dpi – a significant leap over the Galaxy S III’s 306ppi display and the iPhone 5′s 326ppi retina display, making it one of the highest resolution screens around, it’s fully HD Super AMOLED display. With an interesting feature which really caught our eye was Adapt Display, which smartly adjusts the screen tone to match the surroundings for lesser eye strain.

Samsung’s suite of user-tracking functions, including its new Smart Pause, Smart Scroll, and floating touch controls. The Galaxy S IV has unveiled, that uses its front-camera to detect when a user looks away from the video they’re watching and automatically pauses playback.

Hardware: Integrated with a 1.9GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of LP DDR3 RAM. Expected and unveilt at CES in January the 8-core senosrs, including all-new infreared gesture, temperature and humidity.

With amazing features like Screen Mirroring, Samsung Smart Pause (which lets you pause video when you look away from the screen), Smart Scroll (which lets you scroll through pages using your eyes, the S4 is a stunner all around.

Software proceedings: The latest and greatest hardware is fixed with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, and on top of that is, yes, the Samsung’s own TouchWiz.

Storage: The Galaxy S4 will be shipping in three stoirage capacities, the 16GB, 32GB or 64GB, all of which are expandable by means of a microSD card. microSD support goes all the way to 64GB, which means 128GB of storage in total if you opt for a high-end model.

Wireless Technology: The Galaxy S IV will be shipping with 3G and 4G LTE models from the get-go as you would expect, with global LTE roamiong also a pretty interesting feature. The Wi-Fi connectivity looks mightily impressive, offering a/b/g/n/ac (HT80).

The major feature of S4 is 4G LTE, which now supports speeds of up to 100Mbps, and upload speeds of 50Mbps. Great power and speeds are undeneable!

Camera: The Galaxy S4 features a 13-megapixel camera, which uses new camera functions Dual Shot, Eraser, Drama Shot, ans Sound & Shot. With Galaxy S4, the Drama Shot is capable of snapping an incredible 100 shots every 4 seconds, from which you can select the very best shot to look away for safe-keeping.

* Dual Shot allows you to capture images from both the front-facing and rear snappers simultaneously.

* Eraser captures multiple frames so that anyone can remove unwanted subjects.

* Drama Shot composites moving objects for action shots. Finally the Sound & Shot, which captures five seconds of images and audio before the capture button is pressed.

The front-0facing camera is 2-megapixel, and both the front and rear snappers can be used at the same time when recording video or taking shots. As you’d expect, standard features which tag along a new smartphone release are there; such as HDR (High Dynamic Range) mode, panorama shot, sports mode, face detection and more.

Battery: For the Galaxy S4, Samsung including an impressive 2,600 mAh battery. The company went with extra new features,  it’s packed to the rafters with small features which make it a superb device to keep in your hand/pocket.

More off, Galaxy S IV ships with S Translate, a backed-in realtime translator that supports 9 different languages, while S Voice Drive improves GPS driving capabilities. Group Play is yet another feature which really caught our attention. Wouldn’t be great if you could pair up to 8 S4 devices together to make the ultimate sound system? With the S4, you can. How about sharing documents and games too? All-in-all it doesn’t require a wireless router to do its magic?

Samsung Hub is still there in the S4, lets you download the latest content to your smartphone in a hype. Games, Movies, music etc. are on offer. ChatOn – a new Samsung’s mown messaging service is On with support for voice and video calls, screen sharing, and support for 3-way calling.

Full Specs of Galaxy S4

Price of Galaxy S4: Samsung hasn’t announced official pricing for Galaxy S IV yet, but it said that it will cost around the same as that of any previous flagship Samsung smartphone.

Availability: The Galaxy S4 will ship in April on 327 carriers in 155 countries in both 4G LTE and 3G versions. Sprint has confirmed that it will be offering the Galaxy S IV.

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