SingTel and Facebook Launch New Mobile Site 0.facebook.com, a free way to access Facebook on Your Mobile Phone.

SingTel Facebook

Facebook’s 0.facebook.com site is optimized for speed – it is a new faster, lightweight version of Facebook’s mobile site m.facebook.com. The text-only site does not have graphics or photos and 0.facebook.com’s pages have been designed for high-speed performance on SingTel’s network. Photos posted on Facebook are only one click away from 0.facebook.com. To view a photo, a user only needs to click on a link to the photo and they will be prompted that they are leaving 0.facebook.com. Standard data charges will apply when a person leaves 0.facebook.com to view photos.

What’s more, SingTel waives standard data charges for browsing the site. (It should not cost much as they are mainly text)

Sad to say, 0.facebook.com can only be access by SingTel subscribers. Starhub and M1 is unable to access 0.facebook.com.

I’ve tried accessing it using my dad mobile, it is definitely much faster than m.facebook.com. For facebookers who like to catch up with the latest news in their facebook, I would recommend this only if you are SingTel subscribers.

Perhaps SingTel and Facebook can comes out with a light weight apps for Android and iPhone to make things easier for us.

PS: Not much saving for us anyway because we have 12GB of data, but I like the fast 3G internet access to facebook. I can also access 0.facebook.com using Singnet broadband.

Appendix – Screenshot of 0.facebook.com