Review: Facebook 'Lite' App for 2G Networks with Top 5 amazing features

Introduction

The world’s largest social networking site Facebook is leaving no stones unturned to bring on board the 2G network population in countries where 3G penetration is still not paramount, by launching a lightweight version of Facebook mobile app called "Facebook Lite". These are the countries which have substantial population for making Facebook more popular & increase its base even further.
'Facebook Lite' Android app is designed "for people on 2G (second-generation) connections or in areas of limited internet accessibility” as stated by one of their spokesperson. This app is available on Google App Store and is less than 1 MB is size.

Getting to know about new Facebook Lite Mobile App

More than 1 billion users and still counting, Facebook’s next growth is going to come from emerging market of Africa, South Asian countries where people do not yet have high end smartphone for full featured App. The “Lite” version is meant to load the Facebook feeds & photos quickly. The app is scheduled to be launched in countries like Bangladesh, Nepal,  South Africa, Nigeria , Sri Lanka, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Vietnam. Facebook Lite app is based on phone client called Snaptu. Facebook Lite runs on Android 2.2 devices and up.

Build & Quality

As alluded above, the new Lite App from Facebook, looks quite similar to its Java App launched several years ago, but delivers much more. Following are key highlights of this app:

1) Lite would work on any network and is specially designed to run on 2G network phones with Android 2.2 & above

2) The app will allow very easy access to news feeds & upload photos even on 2G networks

3) It comes with Facebook messenger built-in, i.e. you will no longer have to install Facebook messenger as stand alone app

4) The whole app is just 252 KB in size, making it very easy to download that too in really quick time

5) Lastly, once installed on your phone, this app will use less than 1 MB space, and hence making the app to run really quickly/smoothly in any basic Android phone having very simplistic hardware configuration

You can download the new app from HERE

General Observation & Verdict

Given that the app is very light weight and allows easy/quick access to everything, we think
many of us will be interested in using this app. Current Facebook app for iOS, Android or Blackerry is just too slow and freezes a lot. We are confident, that Facebook has struck the right chord again and it there to flourish.


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