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Facebook Lite App Sneaks Up On Play Store by iscom(op): 7:55pm On Jan 26, 2015
Facebook Lite app sneaks up on Play Store
Facebook has employed a rather odd approach to
the mobile market and it seems to be betting on
quantity, rather than quality for quite some time
now. When the social media giant decided to detach
the messenger from its main application, thus
making it all that less appealing to most users it
sparked an avalanche of complaints with a lot of
subscribers rage-quitting on the main app.
Facebook surely must have felt the negative
consequences and while initially it seemed like a
good enough marketing step to promote the
messenger itself the detrimental effect have
apparently caught on as a new application has
silently made its way to the Google Play Store. It is
essentially a lightweight version of the social
platform that aims to offer services to low-end
devices at faster speeds and best of all, with lower
bandwidth.
The tiny app weighs only 252KB and is very
reminiscent of zero Facebook, only running natively
on the Android platform instead of inside a browser.
Even though Facebook Lite is officially marketed as
a compromise solution for low-end devices that can
not handle the “full experience” its appeal stretches
far beyond that to almost anybody fed up with the
resource-hungry app.
Officially the Lite client is only available for
Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Sri
Lanka, Vietnam and Zimbabwe, which is all but fair
given that they are all developing markets and an
Android One style of approach is truly necessary.
Still if you manage to get your hands on the APK
you should also be able to enjoy a simpler Facebook
experience, just like in the good old days.
Re: Facebook Lite App Sneaks Up On Play Store by ITbomb(m): 8:35pm On Jan 26, 2015
When I first got the message about moving over to Messenger, I quickly deleted my facebook app and now using only the web version.
Facebook is the main reason I am still having 2go app on my droid. it is light weight and fast even on 2g
Re: Facebook Lite App Sneaks Up On Play Store by ps3o(m): 8:54pm On Jan 26, 2015
link to download from pls
Re: Facebook Lite App Sneaks Up On Play Store by Nobody: 1:50am On Jan 28, 2015
ITbomb:
When I first got the message about moving over to Messenger, I quickly deleted my facebook app and now using only the web version.
Facebook is the main reason I am still having 2go app on my droid. it is light weight and fast even on 2g
pls my own not showing all my friend on chat list pls can u help me
Re: Facebook Lite App Sneaks Up On Play Store by ITbomb(m): 6:32am On Jan 28, 2015
Frankmishael:
pls my own not showing all my friend on chat list pls can u help me
It shows only friends that are online at the time, so you cannot send offline message through the gateway
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