Saavn Pro for Android officially launched, offers ad-free offline listening

Saavan, global music service announced their premium music service, Saavn Pro with offline and ad-free music listening back in February. The iPhone and iPad app got updated with Saavn Pro and new UI back in March, the Android app got updated earlier this month with Saavn Pro and New UI. This brings ad-free listening, offline downloads, improved audio quality and lots more. Unlike many other subscription services, users can opt-in to Saavn Pro directly on their mobiles. In addition to these features the app has received a new UI and lot of improvements and bug fixes.

Saavn Pro Features for Android

• Offline Downloads: Subscribers can listen on up to 5 devices per account
• Ad-Free Listening: Music streams without interruptions from advertising, whether logged in on Saavn Music or at Saavn.com
• Sync Over Cellular: Users can opt to use WiFi or a cellular data connection to cache music for offline listening
• Pro Audio: Access to the highest quality music (320 kbps) will be added to the product in the coming weeks

Download Saavn for Android from the Google Play Store for free. There’s a 30-day free trial to try out Saavn Pro, after that users can subscribe to Saavn Pro for Rs 220 per month directly through their Google user account. In addition to Saavn Pro, Saavn has also launched a new premium subscription service called Saavn Pro Lite, which is a cheaper option of Saavn Pro, available only to Indian users it lets users cache up to 1 GB of music on a single device for Rs. 110 per month.

MediaTek MT8135 quad-core chip with ARM big.LITTLE and PowerVR Series6 GPU announced

MediaTek has announced MT8135 quad-core chip based on ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture and PowerVR Series 6 GPU. Samsung announced the Exynos 5410 Octa-core chip at CES 2013 earlier this year that uses 4 ARM Cortex A15 chips and four Cortex A7 chips. Samsung even released an upgraded octa-core chip Exynos 5420 with ARM Mail T628 GPU last week. The MediaTek MT8135 uses two high-performance Cortex A15 clocked at 1.7 GHz and two ultra-efficient Cortex A7 processor clocked at 1.2 GHz. It also has the latest PowerVR Series 6 G6200 GPU. This SoC is aimed at high-end tablets.

This is based on ARM’s big.LITTLE processing that offers enhanced performance while maintaining the power efficiency. MediaTek says that they have deployed an advanced scheduler algorithm that combines adaptive thermal and interactive power management to maximize the performance and energy efficiency benefits of the ARM big.LITTLE architecture that enables application software to access all of the processors in the big.LITTLE cluster simultaneously for a true heterogeneous experience. MediaTek has also unveiled a True Octa Core chip solution recently that would uses all the eight cores at a time.

The MT8135 includes built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and FM and Wi-Fi certified Miracast for seamless multimedia sharing between devices. It support LPDDR3 RAM. The Heterogeneous Multi-Processing model removes all limitations by allowing each CPU to be switched on or off as needed. Here is a chart of the multi-processing model.

Here is a official video that shows that MediaTek MT8135 outperforms today’s tablet chips.

MediaTek did not reveal when we can see tablets with this chip.