Hike Messenger an Indian company roll out its free calling feature starting with Android Phone on 26 Jan 2015, after their first acquisition of Zip Phone, US based company having a free calling app. With Hike Messenger App we can call free hike to hike calls over 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, Call friends in 200+ countries even from low bandwidth networks.  In Hike all the conversation are encrypted, so nobody can eavesdrop. Go on, talk about anything you want and no one else will ever know :)

To download hike messenger app click here.  

Hike Messenger - Android Apps on Google Play

Hike is a cross-platform messaging app that can send messages, videos, images, contacts, locations & favicons to the other users. It was launched on 12 December 2012 and became one of the most used messengers all across India. Apart from basic social messaging means like photos, videos and audio files, Hike allows users to "nudge", a feature used to ping the receiver. In addition to that, the application supports chat themes, graphical stickers, PDF files and Microsoft Office files, and allows users to hide an individual chat or group for extended privacy.
Hike offering several features designed specifically for consumers in India where data plans are often costly, including Hike2SMS, or free SMS credits for feature phones, and message notifications that pop up even if users have turned data off.  With this users can pack in many more minutes per MB when calling on hike.


Benefits of free calling feature in Hike can range from saving your recharge bill to effectively & easily talking to your friends and family. This is really a mind blowing and great feature introduced. The chat application has localized features, which are developed keeping in mind the infrastructural and cultural requirements such as Hike Offline – lets you message your friends even when they’re offline, Hidden Mode – allows users to hide their private chats with a password, Regional Stickers – helps users express more in their own language, amongst many others.  Visit Hike website and get the latest version to enjoy the new feature.

Recently WhatsApp has promised to add voice-calling features, but it’s still unclear when exactly it will be available.  Hike claims that they are currently having over 35 million users, with 90 percent currently residing in India. The company has raised $86 million from Tiger Global and BSB, a joint venture between Bharti Group and Japan’s Softbank.

Hike Messenger TV Ad Video

Awaaz the recently launched Android app / plugin is the next step in Voice over IP telephony (VOIP). It enables you to call friends and family for free. Awaaz enables it to make direct phone-to-phone calls without using the cellular network if both phones have the application installed and are accessible over WiFi, 3G, 4G etc. There are plenty of mobile apps which enable you to make voice calls, very few are free. It effectively makes all phone calls free (including long-distance), even while roaming! That means Awaaz makes the cellular network redundant, and roaming an obsolete concept.

There is no user signup, you never need to give any details, and you never even need to start the application (except for the first time and after updates). Awaaz automatically takes over any phone calls that meet its requirements. You just need to install and run it once, and you're done! In case of problems, it can be disabled easily through its preferences. Like Whatsapp, your phone number is your identity and the app asks for no other details. Whenever a contact of yours starts using the app, your calls to them will automatically start getting routed over the internet with no input from you or the contact. 

Rather than having an actual user interface that you navigate like other apps, once it’s been run for the first time, every call you make to someone who has Awaaz installed will be made over the Internet via a direct P2P connection.

Awaaz uses the Opus codec for voice compression, and features enhanced encryption (2048-bit RSA and 256-bit AES) to ensure your calls remains private even if someone manages to grab all the data in transit, and generates new keys for every call. It will log all calls to your regular call history so your experience is absolutely easy and transparent. 

Awaaz launched in December last year and now it has 4000 plus users. The app sole developer Anuj an Indian Technologist reveals that “Close to 90% of our users come from the US, Europe and Australia. At present, it has been rated 175 times on the Play Store, and has an average rating of 4.3”. 

Anju worked with TCS in South America and later returned to India to start a mobile startup, Hovr, which provided free mobile games and was ad-supported. The total monetary investment in Awaaz was $50 which Anuj paid to a graphics designer to make the images and logo which he has used in the app. 


Awaaz is definitely a more practical and convenient way to make free internet phone calls with very little compromise in the way you use your device. The app is compatible with any device running Android 3.0 or newer, and is available for free from the Google Play Store. 

 FEATURES:

• Establishes a direct P2P connection between the two phones. Capable of punching a hole through NAT, or being used on the same internal network.
• Never shares or uploads your contacts anywhere.
• Uses the Opus codec for unmatched voice clarity.
• Uses just 10 KB/s of bandwidth (upstream and downstream combined).
• Uses a hybrid cryptographic system to exchange a 256-bit AES key using 2048-bit RSA. New public and private keys are generated every single time, thus theoretically making decryption impossible.
• Uses GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) for push messages thus eliminating the need to run a service in the background.
• Has the ability to use 3G / 4G as well. Please enable the option in the preferences if you want it.
• All calls are logged in your regular call history.

HOW TO USE:

1. Install and run it once. The app will register itself on the server.
2. There is no Step 2! From here on, when you make an outgoing call the app will automatically check if the other person also has it installed, and if both phones are connected to WiFi. If so, Awaaz will automatically take over the call and you will see a slightly different calling screen. The same is true for incoming calls.
   
   If you have any trouble with an ongoing call, hit the "X" button on the bottom-left to terminate the app and make a regular call. 
   
   As of version 3.00, you can see which of your contacts are currently online by running the app.

To DOWNLOAD click here:  Play Store Link

The makers of WinRAR the RARLAB released an app for Android devices. Unlike WinRAR, RAR for Android is free and can be downloaded from Google Play Store. The app is only compatible with devices running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and up.  It is an all-in-one, original, free, simple, easy and quick compression program, archiver, assistant, extractor, manager and even a basic file explorer.

RAR for Android can create RAR and ZIP and unpack RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO, ARJ archives. List of functions include repair command for damaged ZIP and RAR files, benchmark function compatible with RARLAB's WinRAR benchmark, recovery record, usual and recovery volumes, encryption, solid archives, utilizing multiple CPU cores to compress data.

Feature of  RAR for Android

• Set up a password before archiving
• RAR, ZIP and ZIPX with BZIP2, LZMA and PPMd files compression
• Unpack RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO and ARJ archives.
• Unrar support for RAR5, UDF and ISO9660
• WinRAR benchmark to find performance of RAR compression and decompression for your Android device
• Multiple language support for easier use
• Uses multiple CPU cores for quick compression and decompression
• Compatible with Android 4.0 and up
•  Holo Dark theme is a new default. Holo Light can be enabled in settings;
• navigation panel instead of favorites menu. Swipe from left edge of screen or touch RAR icon to open it. New panel also includes archive history, which can be disabled in settings;
• RAR 4.x compression option in archiving dialog;
• notification in Android status bar while working in background;
• Bulgarian, Dutch, Italian, Simplified Chinese translations.

Additionally to standard ZIP files, unzip function supports ZIP and ZIPX with BZIP2, LZMA and PPMd compression. Unrar command is available for all versions of RAR archives including the latest RAR5. Both UDF and ISO9660 ISO file format can be unpacked.


If you wish to help us translating RAR to your language, please download RAR for Android language files in "RAR extras" section of www.rarlab.com and follow instructions in readme.txt.


This app is completely free and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store.

The popular third-party free Twitter apps for Android Carbon release their new version 1.2.0.  You will get a pretty major features in this version including new styles, a bunch of newly supported image previews and update frequency options, in-app browsing and support for Vine and YouTube directly within the app  and more.  


All of your Twitter content available on one screen, a screen that doesn't get you drilling down to many other screens to reach to what you want. Timelines, Lists, Favorites, Searches, Trends, Profiles, all there.

What's new in Carbon v1.2.0

• 4x1 Home Screen Widget for quick actions (The original)
• In-App Browser
• YouTube API and in-app YouTube video playback
• Vine videos Timeline Preview and playback
• People Search
• Tweet font size options
• Quote style options
• New Image Viewer screen
• Save Image option
• User Profiles now include users Favorites and Mentions
• All JPEG, PNG URLs are now previewed on Timelines
• Imagur Image previews added
• Image Upload option to Twitpic
• Notification frequency options of 5 up to 120 minutes.
• Option disable image/video previews on Timeline
• Timeline context options are now dismissible via back button

2013 June 30 is the last day to get Google Play Music All Access for $7.99 a month.   If you want to save $2 a month on the life of the service you'll need to act before Monday rolls around. Signing up by clicking here or click on the link http://play.google.com/about/music/ with your phone and follow the instructions for a free 30 day trial to see if the service works for you. Your Google Wallet account will be billed for $7.99 for the next 30 days. If you required you can cancel the service any time through the Google Play store or the Google Play Music app.

 

Google Play Music makes it easy to discover, play and share the music you love on Android and the web.

 

With the new All Access service (US), you can play millions of songs on Google Play, listen to radio with no limits, and enjoy playlists handcrafted by our music experts. Keep listening for just $7.99/month when you start your trial before 6/30/2013.
With both All Access (US) and Standard, the Google Play Music app lets you listen to your music collection anywhere. All your music is stored online, so no need to worry about syncing, storage space or offline playback.

All Access (US) features:
* Listen to unlimited songs
* Create custom radio from any song, artist or album
* Enjoy radio without skip limits
* Get smart recommendations based on your tastes

 All Access (US) and Standard features:
* Add up to 20,000 of your own songs from your personal music collection
* Access your music anywhere without syncing, and save your favorites for offline playback
* Experience music without ads
* Buy new music on Google Play (18M+ songs)
* Share a free full play of the songs you purchase from Google Play with your friends on Google+.