On Wednesday, the new app Instagram Lite for Android launched on the Google Play Store without any official announcement from the Facebook. The Facebook-owned Instagram has offered the users a cut down version of the photosharing application.
The Instagram Lite app is only of 573KB which is easily compared to the regular Instagram’s 32MB application.
Now, the users can currently post photos, add filters, view stories, use the Explore tab and many more. The Facebook-owned Instagram company is also adding the ability to message any friends and share videos later.
However, millions of Smartphone users all over the world still have an old variation with the slow 2G Internet connectivity, and now the “Instagram Lite” can help them to get in touch with friends and the family easily.
The ‘Instagram Lite’ app is very small and also allowing you to save some space on your phone and download it rapidly,” read the complete app’s description on Google Play Store.
Since the Instagram didn’t instantly respond to a request for any comment, but one of the spokespeople in a post told that the Instagram-Lite version began testing in Mexico this week.
They also added that we are recently working for testing a new version of the Instagram for Android that takes up the less space on your Smartphone or any other Android device, and it will use the fewer data and download faster.
The application looks geared towards the emerging markets, where the connection of the internet is generally slower.
On Tuesday, Instagram was estimated to be worth Whopping $100 billion, and it is also expected to exceed approximately 2 billion of the monthly users in the upcoming five years. The company will also roll out its four-way group video chat that allows the users to browse the Instagram app easily.
