Facebook Finally Rolls Out Messenger Lite in India

The stand-alone version of Facebook’s Messenger, the Messenger Lite, finally hit the Indian markets today, months after it was released globally. The app is available for all Android users in the country to download via Google Play.

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The company came up with the ‘lite’ version of its Messenger to ensure that people can use the app even in low bandwidth situations to connect to the rest of the world. Just like the Facebook Lite, the Messenger Lite is a fast, lightweight, and simpler version of the app that is basically aimed at low-end Android-running smartphones used in emerging markets with prevailing slow internet connections.

The Messenger Lite takes up very less space and fewer resources than the original app and just because it uses less memory does not mean that it comes with any fewer features. The Messenger Lite offers almost all basic functions of the original app from photos, texts, and links to even emojis and stickers. Despite all these features, the application is just under 10MB in size, making it quicker to install, and it even takes less time to boot up.

With the growing popularity of Voice calls over data, Facebook has retained the voice calling feature in the Messenger Lite along with the ‘active now’ indicator that lets your Facebook contacts know that you are online. The Lite app was initially rolled out back in April in countries such as Japan, Vietnam, Germany, Netherlands, Peru, Turkey, and Nigeria.