Facebook Goes Lite

<div>Facebook has just launched its Lite app in India and the Philippines. The app is now available for download from the Play Store on Android devices. It makes sense that it isn’t on iOS as owners of Apple devices are in any case unlikely to be in low connectivity zones for any length of time.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><p><img alt="" src="http://bw-image.s3.amazonaws.com/fb-lite-2.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 533px; margin: 1px; float: right;"></p><div>Facebook Lite is meant to pull in more users in places where good internet connectivity is not a given – that is to say, it’s 2G-friendly.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The Lite app downloads at top speed and is quick to set up. The user gets the works – the News Feed, photos, events, groups, and notifications. It even has Facebook chat. What it does not have though, is video. You can select the quality of photographs so that get faster rendering in really low connectivity situations. However, the images are slow to download even when tested on Wi-Fi. The app also refreshes often and creates an interruption of several seconds.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>It looks like Facebook’s new users will have to have a lot of patience as they join the giant social network.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The look of the interface on Lite is similar to the main app and website which is a good thing as users will not feel they’ve been saddled with a compromised experience. However, the font is rather small even at its highest setting and will be quite a strain on small devices.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>India is Facebook’s second largest market after the US and it is where the social network wants to focus its energies on expanding its already gigantic user base.</div>