Other communication apps have also followed suit – Facebook announced Facebook Messenger Lite for Android in October last year, and Twitter also rolled out a less data-intensive lite version of its mobile site last September. Go is intended for devices with 1GB of RAM or less, and is optimised to use as little mobile data as possible (with options like Data Saver mode enabled by default) along with a special suite of Google Mobile Services that is less bandwidth- and data-intensive as compared to the regular offering. Google revealed a low-end version of its Android OS, dubbed Android Go, in conjunction with the launch of Android 8.0 (Oreo) in late 2017. Skype is not the first platform to debut a stripped-down version for older devices. The app is expected to begin rolling out to markets worldwide over the coming weeks. The company says that the new version “is lighter on both disk and memory consumption”, and will include fixes to provide better audio and video quality on older devices, including scenarios with connectivity troubles. In a blog post on Saturday, March 3, Microsoft announced that it would soon begin rolling out a new version of Skype optimised for Android version 4.0.3 to 5.1 (Ice Cream Sandwich to Lollipop).

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