STC and Facebook have announced that they are now offering their customers another way to stay connected with a new Facebook mobile application for Java-powered feature phones. STC is also sponsoring the launch by enabling their customers to download and use the application for three months without incurring any data charges.
The 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 Smartphone’s to the world’s most popular feature phones, like Nokia, and is optimized for speed and performance on STC’s network.
The application includes several new and unique features that enable people to stay connected through Facebook, including viewing and uploading photos from your mobile phone, synchronizing your local address book contacts with your Facebook friends, Facebook login to third party services within the application, such as news, sports, games, and weather .
The new Facebook application is optimized to use as little data as possible while providing the great user experience mobile applications offer. The application uses less data than other similar applications or mobile sites, enabling it to be much cheaper for people to use when the trial period ends.
Jameel Al Molhem, VP Personal Services at STC said “STC provides superior products and services using the latest sophisticated technology. It has a wide up-to date infrastructure, strategic growth plans and ambitious programs which are in line with international development in the sphere of telecommunications and information technology” Al Molhem went on “The company has a pioneering role in providing mobile social networking solutions and launching valuable offers that enrich the lives of our customers”.
We are always looking to work with innovative operators on ways to enable people to easily access Facebook wherever they are,” said Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile Business, and Facebook. “Through our collaboration with STC, we’re thrilled to offer yet another way for people to stay connected with their friends and family through Facebook and bring a high quality and high speed mobile application experience to feature phones in an affordable way.”
STC are always keen to meet the market’s needs by keeping in pace with the latest technological developments in the world of telecommunication, supported by the strongest and most comprehensive 3G coverage in the Kingdom. STC is also keen in meeting the various demands of its customers, and to cover all their needs in regards of communications, and to follow up on news related to sports, society, and culture under a system that centers on the customer, and to enrich his life with the latest technological solutions in the world of communications.
