Beats Music Future Plan After Acquired by Apple

Apple acquired Beats Electronics for $3 billion last year. Beats Electronics are well known for its headphones and speakers products, however, the streaming service, Beats Music, seems like a new service which is going to be launched after the company has been acquired by Apple.

Recently, there are leaks that the streaming service will operate under an entirely new enterprise. The design and concept will still be handled by Apple with a few remnants of Beats Music’s technologies and content here and there. It is planned to be part of a wider collection of apps which includes iTunes and Apple TV.

New features will be added in. One of the new feature is the search feature which will allows users to easily find new music that they can either stream or add to their devices. In the future, Apple is planning to integrate it with the cloud infrastructure. Beats’ existing features such as Playlists, Activities and Mixes will also be integrated into the service.

The support for Android continues since Apple has not developed any app for Google’s platform. The service will be priced at around $7.99 monthly. However, it is not confirmed.

Beats Music Future Plan After Acquired by Apple

Samsung launches Level series of headphones

Apple and Samsung are already nasty enemies in the smartphone world, and headphones may be their next battlefield. Samsung has just launched its “Level” family of high-end audio products in the United States.

The series includes 3 variants of headphones – over-ear, on-ear and in-ear. To add to that there is also a portable Bluetooth speaker. Each headsets are available for purchase via Gilt since Thursday.

The Level-Over is a Bluetooth over-ear headset priced at whopping $349.99. It has a touch panel on the side, which can be used by the user to quickly skip between songs, control volume, play/pause using swipe gestures. The touch panel can also be used for activating the S-Voice feature. The headset also supports NFC pairing. And if you don’t like the way Level Over headphones sound out of the box, Samsung also offers an Android app that allows for EQ customization, or what the Samsung refers to as “SoundAlive.”

 

The Level-On is a wired headset which the company claims to be elegant, compact and simplistic. Considering none of the high-end features are available on this headset, it is priced at just $179.99. The Level-In is the in-ear headset and can be used as an independent 3-way speaker system. The earphones are priced at $149.99.

The rollout of Samsung’s Level products comes since Apple looks to complete its acquisition of Beats Electronics. Samsung has also entered the music subscription arcade with the weirdly named Milk application. But the company has some severe work to do if it aims to make a name for itself against Beats with mainstream consumers and other competitors appealing to audiophiles. That doesn’t mean Samsung should be terminated outright, though. It’s brought some clever audio products to the market before, but $349.99 headphones might prove a very hard sell — especially when there’s no Beats badge on the side.

Samsung launches Level series of headphones