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hey guys it's Branham in a min from pocketnow.com in collaboration with tiny galaxy which is a new YouTube channel for all things mobile tech with original programming be sure to check out the link in the description and subscribe this is the android toolbox part 1 the android toolbox will be a six part video series to cover android essentials whether you've had an android phone for a while or you're just getting one now in this first part we're going to cover how to get multimedia whether that's music TV shows or movies onto your android phone so without further ado let's get to it so we're going to cover a variety of subscription services that let you consume in an unlimited amount of content for a low monthly fee but first let's talk about the obvious choice which is to download content to buy content from the google play store which is of course on every android device now if you buy from the google play store it's going to be more expensive but you actually own the content for example if we go to top albums here we'll see that albums are twelve thirteen fourteen dollars as much as you would pay if you walked into a store and bought a physical album what's great about buying from the google play store is that the content is synchronized across all of your devices so you can listen to the album that you just bought on your android tablet or in your web browser on your laptop or desktop so that is a really great feature of google play music now for movies and TV shows they also get very expensive if you watch a lot of them if you want to buy an entire movie and own it again it will synchronize but the problem is that it's $15 in a lot of cases from HD movie which is a little less expensive than a DVD but still it's a lot of money if you're watching a movie a week or two movies a week now in some cases you can actually rent a movie which is great a lower cost option for three dollars and ninety-nine cents you can rent a movie and watch it within a 24-hour window or like like I said earlier you can buy content for fifteen bucks there are much cheaper options and better options out there that are subscription services so let's start with music now one of those popular music services subscription-based is Pandora it has two levels of service one is three and one is premium and the premium service costs three dollars per month it's really thirty-six dollars per year now Pender of course allows you to input an artist or an album or a song and it will intelligently pick music that sounds just like we're similar to what you've just input so you kind of get a custom radio station and over the years I've accumulated a lot of different radio stations music that I like now if you pay that subscription fee for three dollars you get a higher quality of audio it streams none of this is stored on your device and you also get no advertisements so Pendor is a really great service especially if you want something that is free so let's go back to the home screen here and talk about the next music service which is spotify spotify actually has three levels of service a free level which allows you to listen to a limited amount of streaming content a middle ground level which increases the audio quality lets you do offline playlists and then a premium service which increases the audio quality the premium service is about 10 bucks the middle tier is five bucks and obviously free is zero dollars the great thing about Spotify back beyond having a really really good selection of music really everything that you search for appears on the results there's just so much content is that it has a gorgeous application so if we go over here to related artists we get this beautiful cover art that just looks fantastic on this Android device and we can really use this for music discovery and bouncing around and looking at the latest related artists you can even swipe to the left and read some biographical information about a particular artist then if you like the album you can save it for offline and it downloads to your device and you can listen to it if you're on the subway if you don't have an internet connection and you don't want to stream it so Spotify is a great app at 05 or around 10 bucks for almost unlimited music and it has almost everything really great service and finally to other services I'm not going to talk about their similar to Spotify but they don't have that free level of service we have our do and rhapsody both have big catalogs of music they have different features they have social features and again there about 10 bucks per month for the premium level service now what if you want to stream movies and TV shows to your device but you don't have to pay up every time you watch something well there are several different services i recommend starting with netflix for about eight bucks per month you're able to stream an unlimited amount of content and it also works across so many devices tablets xbox 360 Apple TV and if you start watching on one device it will save this the state and where you left off so that you can resume on the next device that you're watching on and it just has a really good selection the downside to Netflix is that TV series are particularly slow in being added and so are movies but in terms of things that have happened and aired about two years ago and all the way back it's got like everything it's really fantastic in terms of how much it has and again it's only eight dollars per month the video quality is fantastic you can stream HD in 720p if you have an Apple TV and some other devices it goes up to 1080p so just really good quality really inexpensive and a pretty full catalog here now if you want the latest in TV shows Hulu Plus is what you want again it's about eight to ten bucks per month and the great thing about hulu plus is that if there is an episode of the office on yesterday chances are by today it's on hulu plus the downside to hulu plus is that it has commercials only two or three per episode and it's really not that bad just like Spotify we've got a beautiful visual application here that has different categories recommendations and it's just a very nice application to interact with again inexpensive way to get a lot of great content streaming on your android device and of course this is streaming you don't own it but it's always there for you over Wi-Fi or cellular data if you want to watch a TV show you even have a handful of movies the movie selection isn't that big on hulu but you're able to watch some of the classics some of the bigger screen pictures and of course you always have YouTube which is a free option really high quality in a lot of cases if the video sources in HD and it just works very well in Android it's well integrated into android and it has just so much great content a lot of people don't think about it by you can spend a lot of quality time in YouTube seeing some awesome content without having to pay a dime so that was a look at ways you can get multimedia onto your android device there are so many great streaming options out there that are very inexpensive you don't have to spend tons of money in the Google Play Store to own everything you want to watch these subscription services make it very economical to consume multimedia on your android phone and that's going to do it for part one of the android toolbox be sure to check out part 2 coming up soon where we're going to talk about ways to control your home with your android phone or your apartment or wherever you live if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and be sure to subscribe to the pocket now video channel and also to the tiny galaxy youtube channel which you can find a link to in the description down below thanks for watching you