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Download New Facebook App And Enjoy Free

Posted by unknown On Sunday, July 17, 2011 0 comments
Facebook has launched a new Mobile App called Facebook For Every Phone , which offers a fast and comprehensive Facebook experience on over 2,500 different phones.This new application is designed to reach Facebook users who are not having Smartphones or people who are from low income background. 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.

Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, and while smartphone users have been updating from wherever they are for a while, users with older phones have been left out. With Facebook for Every Phone, you can now take the social network with you, whatever phone you have.

Facebook for Every Phone is a Java-based app that gives you all of Facebook's best features, from Photos to Newsfeed and Messages. The interface is clean and clear, and functions remarkably well.

Facebook for Every Phone does require a WAP-enabled phone, which will incur network charges, but it's a small price to pay to get such a well made app on your phone, and many operators around the world are offering a free 90 day trial. The responsiveness of Facebook for Every Phone depends on your phone, but we found it to be effective and very user friendly.

If you have a Java phone and want to get onto Facebook easily, Facebook for Every Phone is the idea solution.

Pros
  • Feature rich
  • Easy to use
  • Comparable to smartphone experience

We also want to make sure the Facebook for Every Phone app is affordable to try and use, which is why we’ve collaborated with many carriers worldwide (see list below) to offer you free data access to this app for 90 days. This experience is optimized to use less data than other Java apps or mobile sites, making it much more affordable for people to use when the 90-day period ends.

The Facebook for Every Phone app will be available globally on Java-enabled phones starting today, and we are working on making the app compatible with even more handsets in the future.

With one easy download of this app, get all of what Facebook has to offer on your mobile device so you can stay connected with your family and friends wherever you are. For more information on how to download and use this application, you can check out the video below.



In India it has partnered with Aircel, Airtel, Reliance and IDEA and Starting Friday, July 12th, all the above operators will offer free data access to this application for 90 days.

Carriers offering free data access for a limited time:

• Aircel (India)

• Airtel (India)

• Banglalink (Bangladesh)

• Beeline (Russia)

• Celcom (Malaysia)

• Etisalat (Egypt, Nigeria)

• Globe (Philippines)

• Idea (India)

• O2 Telefonica (Germany)

• Reliance (India)

• Smart (Philippines)

• Smartfren (Indonesia)

• Telkomsel (Indonesia)

• Three (Indonesia, United Kingdom)

• TIM (Brazil)

• TMN (Portugal)

• Ufone (Pakistan)

• Vodafone (Turkey)


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U2opia Launches Fonetwish Service For Facebook Access on Airtel without Internet or GPRS

Posted by unknown On Friday, May 20, 2011 0 comments

U2opia Mobile, a Singapore-based mobile solutions provider has launched Fonetwish, a platform for accessing Facebook via USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) in partnership with telecom provider Airtel. The service has been developed jointly with Facebook and it’s the first of its kind.
USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) is a menu-based system that allows interfacing with content based services. Unlike a normal browser, the USSD menu acts as browser to pull content to the phone, hence it does so without using the internet or activating GPRS capabilities.

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Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) is a protocol used by GSM cellular telephones to communicate with the service provider's computers. USSD can be used for WAP browsing, prepaid callback service, mobile-money services, location-based content services, menu-based information services, and as part of configuring the phone on the network.

Example USSD codes:
​*101#​
​*109*72348937857623#​
After entering a USSD code on your GSM handset, the reply from the GSM operator is displayed within a few seconds.
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Shireesh Joshi, Director – Marketing, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel said, “In the Indian market scenario, where the penetration of smart phones is relatively low and use of internet on mobile is primarily limited to key cities, many users are excluded from accessing their Facebook accounts via mobile phones. The need for a ubiquitous access mechanism is a growing necessity – and that’s exactly what Airtel’s USSD service for Facebook will help deliver.”

Airtel’s 150 million Indian customers will be able to update their Facebook status for free, but to use other features like viewing, commenting, posting on friends walls, confirming friend requests, ‘Like’ news feeds, view notifications and finding and adding friends, they will have to pay a minimal charge of Re 1 per day.

Facebook’s Head of Mobile Business, Henri Moissinac said, “At Facebook, we are always exploring ways to enable people to easily connect and share with friends on Facebook wherever they are, whenever they want. The USSD-based Facebook access service is an affordable  way for people to stay connected with their friends and family.”

The users will have to dial *325# (*fbk# for non-qwerty mobile handsets) from their handsets which will open a menu that will prompt the user to enter their Facebook username and password and after the one-time registration, a text menu is displayed for browsing through content.

“Although smartphones are available in India, the number of users are not very high. Fonetwish will allow everyone with a mobile phone to access Facebook on their mobiles,” said Sumesh Menon, Co-Founder and CEO, U2opia Mobile, speaking to Techcircle.in. “Currently the USSD based service is only available on Airtel but talks are ongoing with other telecom operators for similar services. We are also looking at expanding our services to other countries like Indonesia and Philippines.”
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