Facebook gets new touch friendly mobile site: touch.facebook.com
Touchscreens and mobile apps are the big draw for mobile users in the here and now. With the wide range of handsets available worldwide, it’s impossible to create an app or special web page for every single one. It’s ok. No need to cry or lose sleep as your mobile social networking aspirations will be taken care via Facebook’s new page for mobiles: touch.facebook.com. As you can guess, this new portal is specifically tailored to touhscreen phones giving users overall larger and more finger friendly on screen navigation and objects to tap on. Whether or not you have a Facebook app of your own, it can’t hurt to try it out can it?
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