I find this very odd news, I'm in the UK and I've been using Facebook mobile on my Nokia N73 for nearly a year! I have friends who've been accessing it on other networks too for the last six months...
Tony
· 1 year ago
Bring it on!
I guess you mean that there will start to be UK networks appearing in the options when you go to register your mobile?
I've certainly managed to publish photos from my mobile but I can't register the number and get the Facebook activation code back by SMS as no UK networks are supported.
What is really annoying is that my PDA can't access the current mobile version of Facebook (WAP?) and the iPhone version looks terrible. I'm sure it's great on an iPhone but not on anything else.
Ruth
· 1 year ago
yeah I'm in the UK and I've been using facebook on my phone for over a year too (and I know some friends use it too, but not as much as me), both through opera mini mobile phone browser and my inbuilt mobile phone browser; as nov through beginning of january my mobile phone operator o2 offer a promotional free access to facebook on your phone (no data charges), which they sent me an advert text about.
I imagine this was sponsored by facebook, and now on the o2 mobile internet homepage facebook is the first biggest link on the page, so I reckon they must have some kind of agreement with facebook also.
However I think the question is will any internet browsing take off on mobiles in the UK until mobile phone browsers become better/opera mini is adopted by more people? I found it a complete pain to navigate facebook on the mobile phone browser in order to get facebook access for free. People find phone internet so difficult to use it will barely make any difference to facebook takeup unless that is changed.
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I guess you mean that there will start to be UK networks appearing in the options when you go to register your mobile?
I've certainly managed to publish photos from my mobile but I can't register the number and get the Facebook activation code back by SMS as no UK networks are supported.
What is really annoying is that my PDA can't access the current mobile version of Facebook (WAP?) and the iPhone version looks terrible. I'm sure it's great on an iPhone but not on anything else.
I imagine this was sponsored by facebook, and now on the o2 mobile internet homepage facebook is the first biggest link on the page, so I reckon they must have some kind of agreement with facebook also.
However I think the question is will any internet browsing take off on mobiles in the UK until mobile phone browsers become better/opera mini is adopted by more people? I found it a complete pain to navigate facebook on the mobile phone browser in order to get facebook access for free. People find phone internet so difficult to use it will barely make any difference to facebook takeup unless that is changed.