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Social Media giant, Facebook, has announced today a new version of its Facebook app that uses less data and works well across all networks, the Facebook Lite.

Facebook Lite, as its name suggests, is a stripped-down version of Facebook’s main app designed to work well on low-tier Android phones and 2G networks or areas with slow or unstable connections. The app quietly became available back in January but only in select markets.

It is less than 1MB in size for quick download and load but includes Facebook’s core features like News Feed, status updates, photos, and notifications.

Facebook Lite is currently rolling out in Asia, followed by Latin America, Africa and Europe.

source: FB Newsroom
Play Store: Facebook Lite

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Can’t use the heavily-sized Facebook app on your low-end devices? You might want to take a closer look on the new Facebook Lite app for Android, giving you almost the same social media network experience for less of your storage space.

Built for the emerging markets, Facebook Lite offers its users full access the social networking service and use essential features also seen on the regular app such as browsing your news feed, adding pictures, comments, likes, shares and many more. The web-based app only eats less than 1MB of your storage, and it is designed to work for 2G networks with limited network connectivity by optimizing web page loads, enabling faster loads and providing more efficient data.

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Sadly though, this isn’t yet available in the country as the app is initially offered to selected emerging countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. As always, there are ways to sideload the app into your smartphones if you know how to do the drill, or use a third-party Facebook app instead to suffice your need for social media.

{APKMirror | via TheNextWeb}

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