Mobilicity yesterday announced a new Facebook mobile application for Java-powered feature phones.
This new Facebook application provides a better experience for feature phones than other similar applications and mobile sites. It brings the popular features and user experience already deployed on Facebook mobile applications for smartphones to the world’s most popular feature phones, and is optimized for speed and performance on Mobilicity’s network
Among the features it offers are the ability to view photos from your mobile phone, synchronizing local address book contacts with Facebook friends, and support for Facebook login to third party services within the application. It is also designed to use as little data as possible.
Mobilicity’s Facebook app is a free download. To celebrate the launch, Mobilicity is also letting users use the application without incurring any data charges. The promotion will run for three months.