Gemalto N.V., a public company incorporated in the Netherland, launched a client/server SIM application for operators which could enable the mobile users to have Facebook connection without any data connectivity. Personal Argentina was the first company to held out this new app named “Facebook For Sim” in their SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) and it is expected to reach the companys 17.4 million customers.
This new application which need to be installed on the SIM by carrier providers itself, uses only the messaging service of the carrier providers. So, mobile users who owns the mobile devices that supports messaging service (I suppose, almost every mobile supports messaging service) can access their Facebook profile, post on their friends wall, read status updates from their friends wall and can send and receive Facebook messages through this app. They no longer need to worry about their device support for data connectivity (may be GPRS, EDGE or 3G), which is totally unnecessary for using Facebook For SIM.
Facebook For SIM
Currently, to access the Facebook without any limits and subscribed data connectivity from a basic mobile phone through “Facebook For SIM”, Gemalto provides a free trial. After the trial period expires there would be a $1, $3 and $9 for a day, a week and a month respectively. The video attached at the bottom of this post will show you how to use the “Facebook For SIM”.
In this Smartphone uprising world, some experts may rise questions like, “Is this app necessary?”. But from the recent stats from Facebook, the Facebook have more than 350 million mobile users and most of them were in developing countries like India and Indonesia, where there isn’t much of the Smartphones penetration in the mobile market. So, this SIM with “Facebook For SIM” could make it effective in the near future which could give opportunity even to ordinary mobile users to utilise the Facebook.
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