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Updated: Hungama Launches Music & Video Streaming App; Our Take

Digital entertainment business Hungama.com has launched a music and video streaming mobile app, which allows users to stream songs or videos from various genres like Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, Devotional, Regional music and International music among others. At launch, the app claims to offer a music library of more than 2 million songs and is available for free on iOS, Android and BlackBerry 10 platforms. Interestingly, the app claims to be the only music streaming app which offers video streaming, but contrary to its claims, California based Zyngl had launched a music and video streaming app in January 2013. Homescreen: We tried it on Nexus 4 running on Android 4.2.2 and noticed that the app currently features four sections - Latest, Top, Recommended and My Stream. As the name suggests, the Latest and the Top sections allows one to browse the latest and top ranked music on that service. Recommended section currently offers various songs recommendations. While the song recommendations were quite random at the time of writing this article, we believe that the song recommendations will hopefully improve with the usage. The My Stream section seems to allow users to invite their friends via email, Facebook and Twitter, browse through their friend recommendations and share tracks/playlists with their friends. However, we weren't able to access the section, since we got an error 'No Internet Connection' at the time of writing this article, in spite of having a working Internet connection. Thumbnail-based Approach: Interestingly, we noticed that the app takes a thumbnail based approach to feature various…

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