Facebook - On the sidelines of its F8 Developers Conference in San Jose, California, Facebook has announced a number of new products and services to be introduced to consumers in the coming period.

The company has unveiled Light Speed, a fully rebuilt Messenger application that will be less than 30 megabytes, which means it is smaller than two-thirds of the current Messenger application.

Light Speed ​​aims to deliver the full features of the Messenger application, and is expected to be launched later this year for IOS.

According to the company, it has been developed using entirely new software, which has become operational in less than two seconds (1.3 seconds according to the company).

The company does not plan to release a copy of the Android phones, a copy of the 25-megabyte Light Messenger available since 2015 for low-specification mobile Android phones.

Messenger for computers
Facebook has also unveiled a desktop application for desktop PCs running Windows and MacOS, after years of providing a desktop version of the Wattasab application.

A desktop version of Messenger will be released around the world later this year (Reuters)

While the Wattasab application lacks a number of key functions compared to the Smartphone version, the Messenger application for computers comes with full functionality, such as group chat, voice calls and group video calls.

The new desktop version appears to be based on the version of Messenger.com, a web-based version of Facebook Messenger that has long been a quick alternative to Messenger from the web interface.

According to Facebook, the new application of Messenger for computers will be launched around the world later this year.

New advantages
In addition, the company has unveiled new features for the Messenger application, including the "Digital Living Room" feature, which will allow users to have a space to find content from people who communicate with them permanently via Messenger. This content consists of stories, photos, and videos.

Messenger will also have the advantage of allowing users to watch the video together at the same time, in line with the vision of the "digital living room" presented by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last month. This feature will allow users to share a video from Facebook via Messenger and invite others to join it.

The company did not disclose the date for the launch of these new features, but is likely to be issued later this year.