Microsoft Outlook Lite for Android was released on Monday in India along with several other countries. According to the company, the “lite” version of the app is targeted towards low-end Android smartphones. Apart from India, Outlook Lite is also available in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela. The Lite version supports Hotmail, Live, MSN, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Exchange Online accounts. The company is also reviewing the possibility of a wider roll out of Outlook Lite for Android in other countries.
in a blog Post, Microsoft Outlook Lite for Android has been announced. As mentioned earlier, the newly released app comes with support for Outlook.com, HotmailLive, msn, Microsoft 365and Microsoft Exchange Online accounts.
Outlook Lite for Android App is currently available for download Via Google Play Store in India, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela, according to Microsoft. The company says that it is looking at rolling out Outlook Lite for Android to other countries in the future.
The Outlook Lite for Android app is targeted for low-end Android smartphones, according to the company. “With Outlook Lite, we aim to make Outlook more accessible to users who are on lightweight mobile devices around the world and empower them to achieve more,” Microsoft explains in the blog post.
According to the company, the Outlook Lite for Android app retains the core experience of Outlook by offering features including email, calendar, contacts and more. The app size is around 5MB and is said to occupy “extremely low storage” on an Android user’s smartphone.
Microsoft claims that Outlook Lite is optimized to run on all Android smartphones, even those with as little as 1GB of RAM. According to the tech giant, it is claimed to use relatively less battery and work on all networks, including 2G and 3G networks around the world.