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Saavn Makes Mobile Music Available for Everyone with LAVA Discover 136S

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Saavn, the world’s largest Indian music streaming service, today announced a partnership with LAVA International, one of India’s fastest-growing mobile handset companies. The Saavn app, which provides listeners a fast, affordable music experience on the go, will be pre-loaded on LAVA’s newest feature phone offering, the LAVA D-136A.

 

Speaking about the partnership, Kartikeya Shukla, Head of Global Business Development for Saavn, said, “We are excited to launch this offering with LAVA on their latest Discover Series handset. Saavn’s mission is making music accessible to everyone. Since feature phones play a dominant role in India, especially in the non-metros, this new association bolsters Saavn’s commitment to providing a seamless listening experience in Tier 2 and 3 cities.”

 

The tie-up with Saavn enables LAVA to introduce devices which provide a superior music experience at an affordable price, through the Discover range of touch phones.  “With the Discover series of phones, LAVA aims to bridge the gap between quality and affordability for a large part of the Indian population, which is relying on affordable technology to ride the wave of the Internet revolution. Our partnership with Saavn is a testament to our commitment to empower people to do more with technology, and entertainment is a big part of that. With Saavn pre-loaded on the LAVA Discover 136S, our customers can enjoy one-click access to a world of music streaming, in the language of their choice,” said Mr. Navin Chawla, Vice President – Product, LAVA.

Saavn and LAVA will work together on various co-marketing efforts to spread awareness about the combination, which brings great technology to a broader swath of the populace at an affordable price. Saavn has previously rolled out successful OEM partnerships with brands like Micromax, Karbonn, Samsung, and HTC.

 

Founded in 2007, Saavn has over 11 million monthly users worldwide. Saavn’s comprehensive music catalog includes over 1 million Indic tracks for its streaming search-and-play and radio services (including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, English, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, and Bhojpuri content). With the smartest search, the fastest results, and the largest library, Saavn delivers a seamless, on-the-go listening experience to music fans everywhere, across web and mobile. Saavn’s latest industry-leading innovation is ad-free, offline play on Saavn Pro.

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