Facebook launched Facebook lite app for low ram phones and slow internet


Facebook Lite APK App for Android Released for low ram android phones. Facebook launched a new Android application for its social media on Thursday that uses less data and runs faster in regions with irregular and slow internet connections.

The application, called Facebook Lite, is available in Asia and will soon make its way to parts of Latin America, Africa and Europe, Vijay Shankar, product manager for Facebook Lite, he said in an interview. In many of these countries, people still use 2G internet networks, which are much slower and have less power than 4G networks as seen in many developed countries.

Facebook launched Facebook lite app for low ram phones and slow internet


"We want to offer people a choice so if there are limitations can still get the full experience of Facebook," Shankar said.

The application uses less than half a megabyte (less than 1 MB size) of data to limit the use of data and the internet rates of emerging markets. Although still supports Facebook news, status updates, notifications and photos, but it does not support advanced video and location services.

Facebook Lite APK android app is part of the largest expansion of the social media network in the world in emerging markets. Earlier this year, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, announced Internet.org, a platform developed with six partners from technology to connect today 4,500,000,000 people without Internet access. Internet.org is a service of FB to provide free internet service to people.

At the time of writing, the application was still not available in Google Play India. Further detailing the need for Facebook Lite, Shankar made in a blog.

"More than one billion people around the world access to Facebook from a variety of mobile devices on different networks. In many areas, the networks can be slow and is not capable of supporting all the functionality found in Facebook for Android app. Facebook Lite was built for these situations, giving people a reliable experience of Facebook when bandwidth is at a minimum.

Facebook Lite is less than 1 MB so it is quick to install and quick to load. It includes core experiences of Facebook as News Feed, status updates, photos, notifications and more." So, download Facebook Lite APK android app now if you have a low ram android phone or if you have a slower internet connection.

Reliance with FB launched free internet service in India


Facebook with Reliance launched a free unlimted internet service in India.

Facebook with Reliance Communications together will provide Internet based services on mobile phones for free of charge, so that India will become the first country in Asia to use the Facebook free Internet.org service and people will enjoy free unlimted mobile internet service.

Reliance launched a free unlimted internet service in India.


The Reliance and Facebook will provide the application first in seven of the 22 regions of India, or regions and then they will launch it across the country in the next 90 days, Gurdeep Singh, managing director of Reliance consumer told to journalists.

The free internet will be provided by Internet.org service, a non-profit organization whose sponsors include Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Qualcomm and Opera Software. This aim to launch such service is to provide internet access to third of the world population that is not yet connected to the world via internet.

The application is aimed for low-income and rural users to have free internet access via mobile phone to more than 30 concise web services, jobs website, agricultural information, health websites and education websites in seven focused regional languages ​​- and the Facebook social and private messaging networks services.

This service will be available to all subscribers of Reliance with 106.3 million phones that has the feature of Internet service.

Mobile phones sales booming in India with the second largest mobile market in the world and sales up to 90 percent of smartphones in the quarter from October to December. But less than 20 percent of the population has access to the Internet - So that more than one billion people don't have internet access.

Facebook said it had worked since October last year with Reliance Communications to overcome barriers of connectivity.

Both Reliance and Facebook said it should in the long-term benefit of society. India has the world's third largest population of Internet users and is able to take second place in this year.

Singh said the company has needed to meet the expected increase in traffic infrastructure strengthened, but gave no details on the amount that was spent.

"We discuss data access have positive benefits, and then we'll scalable for our partners, so that once these users want to use more, just buy a regular schedule (data)," Markku Makelainen, Director Global Face associations operators, Reuters said.

"One of our goals is to have a profitable relationship."

Facebook has more than 150 mobile operators in the last four years together to provide free or discounted access to the facebook social network, but the new Internet.org application is the first time the company added a new services through their website.

The service comes to India and then a similar entries in Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana and Colombia soon.