If you've ever wanted to go on a social media diet, here's your chance. Starting this week, Facebook is making the slimmed-down Facebook Lite app available to Android users in North America, Australia ...

Facebook is a great social network that has proven useful for personal and professional purposes. It’s one of those services that seems to stop the world whenever they go down. It’s the most popular ...

Love it or hate it, Facebook has become an integral part of many people’s online lives. One way you might be able to improve your social media experience is to look at Facebook’s Lite app (available ...

Facebook is trialling a new app called Facebook Lite, designed as a slimmed-down version of its mobile experience for Android users in developing countries that may have lower bandwidth. The benefits ...

Internet messaging is one of those things that has been undergoing reinvention pretty much since the internet began. Last week we were reminded of the existence of AIM just long enough to reminisce ...

Facebook Messenger Lite, the low-data version of Facebook Messenger that came to the United States last February, is getting video chat functionality in an upcoming update. The app first debuted as a ...

Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. So today, Facebook is launching a ...

Facebook is finally bringing one of its most popular apps to the U.S. Facebook Lite, the company's data-conserving Android app, originally created for developing markets, will launch in the U.S. on ...

Android users can rejoice today as the development team behind the mobile Facebook app collection have released Facebook Lite. Made initially for low-resource smartphones, this piece of software is ...

“Lite” apps have been available for years now, but they took off with Android Go — an initiative to make cheaper, low-end phones for people in low-income countries. Part of the initiative was the ...

Android lite apps are the antidote to full-sized apps whose ample features may be hard to use, or hard on your phone’s performance. Google, Facebook, and others have finally started taking lite apps ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...