Microsoft is releasing a brand new smaller and sooner Outlook Lite app for Android this week. The light-weight model of Outlook is designed to have a smaller app dimension, sooner efficiency, and decrease battery utilization, all whereas together with the core options of the common Microsoft Outlook cellular app.

Outlook Lite is round 5MB in obtain dimension, and Microsoft says it “makes use of extraordinarily low storage in your cellphone.” It has been optimized to run rapidly on all Android gadgets and even ones with simply 1GB of RAM. Because it’s a bit of extra light-weight, it makes use of fewer cellphone assets and will save on battery utilization. Most significantly, it’s designed to work nicely throughout all cellular networks, together with 2G and 3G ones which are nonetheless in use in many countries worldwide.

Microsoft is making Outlook Lite available in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Peru, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela. Outlook Lite will help Outlook.com, Hotmail, Dwell, MSN, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Trade On-line accounts.

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(*14*)Meta was one of many first huge tech firms to create a slimmed-down model of its unique Fb Android app. Fb Lite appeared in 2015 as only a 1MB app, aimed immediately at growing markets. Google adopted with its line of “Go” light-weight Android apps, together with Gmail Go in 2018.

Microsoft says it’s introducing Outlook Lite to make its cellular e-mail app “extra accessible to customers who’re on light-weight cellular gadgets the world over,” in accordance with Pradeep Elavarasan, senior product supervisor at Microsoft.

Microsoft additionally continues to check a brand new Outlook for Home windows app. The brand new app is in testing and is predicated on Outlook on the internet. It’s going to ultimately exchange the Outlook for Home windows app in the years forward.