Introducing Google News Lite mode — faster news for slower networks There are many parts of the world, like India, where slow 2G and 3G mobile networks are the norm. In places like this, when news breaks you’ll likely wait, and wait, and wait for articles to load on your smartphone. That’s why, starting this week, Google News and Weather for Android is introducing a new feature called Lite mode to help many of India’s 200 million smartphone users stay connected with news from around the world and in their local communities. We’ll be rolling this out to other countries in emerging markets in the coming months. They’re also working to bring news to people in their local languages. In India, they embarked on this effort back in 2007 with Hindi and have since expanded to include Malayalam, Tamil, Telegu and English, from more than 1,000 India-based publishers. They plan to bring Lite mode to users in Brazil and Indonesia later this year, and more places next year. By default Lite mode triggers automatically when a slower network is detected (users can also choose to control Lite mode directly). See http://bit.ly/2dkaKWJ
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