Reliance users in India have a reason to rejoice. Reliance Communication (R Com) and social network site Facebook have declaredlaunching of a new Facebook mobile application for Reliance users in the country for a period of 3 months. With the help of this mobile application, Reliance users can access their FB account with their current phones without the need for updating them to a smartphone. The offer will be provided by R Com for free for 3 months without any charges. Commenting on the mobile app, Prashant Gokarn, 3G Business Head of Reliance Communication said that the venture by FB and R Com will help in exploring the power of social networking in India and will allow Reliance users to access FB from all the well known cell phones available in the country.
Meanwhile R Com has said that with the help of the mobile app, users can get smartphone like feel on their feature phone and the app has been fabricated for speed and performance on the network of Reliance Communication. With the help of the application users can view photos on their cell phone and carry out several things pertaining to FB. It is to be noted that feature phones still play a dominant role in the Indian mobile phone market despite increase in penetration of the smartphones. Coming out of the FB mobile application could not have been better considering the rise in trend of accessing social networks via mobile phones.
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