LowTech Facebook Experience for Over 2,500 Regular Cellphones
“Casey Chan – Facebook for Every Phone: Now Even People With Crappy Dumbphones Can Check Facebook. Facebook just unveiled their Facebook for Every Phone app which will put a serviceable Facebook experience on even the crappiest of phones. I’m not kidding, Facebook for Every Phone will work on over 2,500 different devices.”
Source: Gizmodo
You don’t have to have a smartphone to get onto one of the most popular services in the world, Facebook of course. Everyone and their mother, literally is or will be or have been on it at sometime in their lives.
Casey Chan of Gizmodo gave us a good Laugh Out Loud with his article we quoted above. If you have any sympathy for the techno-peasants of the world, you would want to grant them what? You guessed it, a dummied down java-based version of Facebook!
“Derek says it’s always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can’t top it, steal from them and go out strong.”
American History X
“Now even people with crappy dumbphones can check facebook”
LOL, Cheers Casey…
Facebook also announced a website for dumbphones, 0.facebook.com for regular cellphones to visit so their experience is as fast as it can be. 2,500 devices from all the major manufacturers, Sony Ericsson, LG and more will have access to popular functions of facebook pictures, wall, posts, galleries, contacts…
Facebook was busy making deals. Select carriers in various countries are offering a 90 free data access period for users with Facebook Feature Phones as they have come to have been named. Dialog (Sri Lanka), Life (Ukraine), Play (Poland), StarHub (Singapore), STC (Saudi Arabia), Three (Hong Kong), Tunisiana (Tunisia), Viva (Dominican Republic), Vodafone (Romania), Mobilicity (Canada), Reliance (India), Telcel (Mexico), TIM (Brazil), Vivacom (Bulgaria)
“Facebook for Every Phone
At Facebook, we work to ensure people around the world have a great Facebook experience no matter where they are or how they access our site.
Today, we’re launching the new Facebook for Every Phone app, which offers a fast and comprehensive Facebook experience on over 2,500 different phones. This app not only includes Facebook’s most popular features, such as News Feed, Inbox, and Photos, but also enables you to upload photos and find friends from your phone’s contacts. People all over the world can download the app by visiting m.facebook.com and scrolling down to the download link, or by entering d.facebook.com/install directly into their mobile browser. You can also find it in leading app stores, including GetJar, Appia, and Mobile Weaver.”
Source: Facebook
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