Facebook Launches Messenger Lite

Facebook has announced the release of a "Lite" version of its android Messenger App.
This Lite Messenger App has been designed for older phones with less memory and less powerful processors, it makes messenger accessible to users with less powerful phones or slow internet.

The slimmed down app has been designed to work reliably on  a wider variety of Android devices, and use less data to mitigate unpredictable network speeds.

Of course, using Messenger Lite doesn't stop anyone from messaging friends - it's completely inter-operable with the regular version of Messenger. A lot of emerging markets use WhatsApp, which takes very little data and is a smaller app than Messenger, but this is a good thing to happen. It gives WhatsApp some competition there, albeit within Facebook as the internet giant operates both, and gives consumers other options if they want to message someone who isn't on WhatsApp. The Lite app comes in at less than 10MB and includes all the core Messenger features - text, photo and video messaging is all there, as is stickers. For the icon, the colors of the normal Messenger logo have been reversed - it's a blue bolt on a white background (same as Facebook Lite).

That means that downloading the app takes much less time and uses up less of any data allowance. The app also starts up much more quickly on less powerful handsets, according to Tom Mulcahy, Facebook's engineering manager for Messenger Lite. Messenger Lite is being rolled out now in Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Venezuela, and will be made available in other countries in the coming months.

Use Links Below To Download Messenger Lite

Messenger Lite(5.4MB)  Google PlayStore