Messenger Lite

An official Facebook messaging client that's a whole lot lighter

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Messenger Lite is an official client developed by Facebook for

its well-known instant messaging service. The biggest draw is

that this client takes up much less space than the standard

version, occupying a little less than 10 megabytes. This makes

it lighter, which means it can run without any problems on older

devices with previous versions of Android.

The application is an official one, so it has practically all

the same functions as the original chat service, enabling you

to talk with your friends individually or in groups by sending

and receiving text, images, videos, and stickers.

The difference between this client and unofficial ones that you

can find online is that Messenger Lite can work in the background

and send notifications for messages from your friends, like triggering

vibrations or lighting up the device's screen when there is any activity.

In practical terms, it has the same features as the original client

without taking up as much space and consuming as many resources, which

is what Facebook applications are generally known for.

Messenger Lite is a fantastic alternative to the official

Facebook client. It's especially useful in countries where

wireless connections struggle with the huge amount of data

needed to run the official client. It's also compatible with

a large number of devices and older versions of Android

(as far back as 2.3 Gingerbread), though of course you can

use it no matter what your situation is.

By Erika Okumura

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Lots of the go-to apps we use on our smartphones are

starting to get a bit out of hand in terms of their resource

consumption. In many cases even midrange devices can't handle

the ballooning suck on memory. Hence the proliferation of Lite

apps (both official and unofficial) these days, all of them set

up to offer the same main features as their original counterparts

but massively reducing RAM use and the space taken up on the device.

Here are some of the most popular and efficient ones available

(plus a tool to create your own lite apps as a bonus).

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The year 2016 has turned out to be a very

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a turning point of market saturation where quantity

trumps quality. Still, though, we've seen lots of

sparks of quality that have served to detonate new

openings in app development. Here are 9 tools released

this year that we think have proved most relevant for

Android, video games aside.

WHY IS MY SMARTPHONE SO SLOW?!

It's the million-dollar question, the one you ask your

'techie' friend about, the missing link for that low-end

Huawei you gave your mum for Christmas, the words you whisper

to your reflection every morning in the mirror: WHY IS MY PHONE

RUNNING SO SLOW? Time marches inexorably on for electronic devices –

the fault of the ever more demanding software that sucks the useful

life out of your phone in a million ways. But still, we can fight to

keep this from happening. Here's how.

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