user: Problem: If you access Facebook via the Web browser on a "feature phone" -- a simpler, less powerful cousin to the smartphone -- your experience might improve significantly over the next few weeks. On Friday, Facebook announced an upgrade to its "lean" mobile site m.facebook.com. This upgrade integrates the full range of features found in Facebook's mobile site for smartphones and other phones with touchscreen browsers: touch.facebook.com. This update is being rolled out gradually to Facebook users. Facebook product designer Lee Byron explained: "With the new m.facebook.com, users with high-end touch devices will see a rich touch-friendly interface; for users with feature phones, the site will look and work great. ...There will no longer be a difference between m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com, we'll automatically serve you the best version of the site for your device." Here's why this is a smart move -- one that I wish more online sites and services would emulate. Too often, as popular sites and services upgrade their mobile offerings, they cater primarily to smartphone users -- which means they end up leaving the vast majority of mobile users further behind. According to new numbers from ComScore, currently only 29% of handsets in use in the U.S. are smartphones. A brief definition: While the lines between the two types of devices are becoming blurred, smartphones are defined as having operating systems capable of running "native" apps with a wide range of sophisticated functions, and fully featured web browsers (usually based on the Webkit browser). Feature phones tend to be cheaper, simpler, and more limited. Often feature phones lack touchscreens, and they usually run simple apps based on Java. While smartphones are getting more popular, and many feature phones are getting smarter -- well, at least getting better Web browsers -- most mobile users aren't yet willing to handle the costs and complexity associated with smartphones. Consequently, feature phones will likely continue to be a huge part of the mobile market for at least a few more years. MSNBC reports that Facebook currently has about 600 million users worldwide, and about 250 million of them already access Facebook from their cell phones. With an enhanced experience for simpler cell phones, I'd expect that Facebook might quickly grow its mobile user base -- and probably also pick up a lot of new website users. That's the point: Facebook's business model hinges on getting as many people as possible engaged as much as possible. This means finding a way to efficiently serve the mobile devices they're using today -- not just targeting the mobile devices they might be using a few years from now. The move to upgrade and unify Facebook's mobile Web experience also will streamline Web development for Facebook. As if it isn't complicated enough to maintain native apps for each major smartphone operating system (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, etc.), maintaining multiple mobile website versions consumes considerable time and resources. "Every time we launched a new feature, we had to build it multiple times across different code bases," wrote Byron. "Once for facebook.com, then again for m.facebook.com, touch.facebook.com, and in native applications as well. Honestly, we weren't very good at doing this, so certain features were missing on different devices." Coupled with Facebook's recent acquisition of Snaptu -- a popular platform for Java-based apps that runs on most feature phones -- this consolidation of the company's mobile Web efforts indicates an unusually inclusive mobile strategy. Facebook is clearly taking a hard look at the mobile market that actually exists, rather than the one that most developers and wireless carriers seem to believe, or wish, exists. If Facebook can move fast to serve feature phone users well, while other social media services -- except Twitter, of course -- tend to treat feature phones as an afterthought, it's more likely to maintain loyal users for the long term. The opinions expressed in this post are solely those of Amy Gahran.

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Answer: Facebook announced an upgrade to its "lean" mobile site m.facebook.com. This upgrade integrates the full range of features found for smartphones. MSNBC reports that about 250 million users access Facebook from their mobile phones.

Problem: Andy Murray is likely to have to accept a considerable cut in payments when his new clothing deal is unveiled as his lucrative five-year deal with adidas comes to an end. Murray is shortly expected to announce a new major sponsor, joining Laura Robson and James Ward on the clothing-go-round as British players’ on-court appearance change considerably in 2015. Robson has also left adidas and gone to their fellow giants Nike, while Murray is expected to replace his expiring five year $15 million deal with an arrangement promoting a company less automatically associated with tennis. Andy Murray wears an adidas t-shirt during a training session ahead of the Australian Open earlier this year. It is believed that a frontrunner in negotiations has been American company Under Armour, who are more known in this country for their deal kitting out Tottenham Hotspur. At present their tennis involvement has been limited, although they currently kit out rising American star Sloane Stephens and the veteran US journeyman Robby Ginepri. It could be that they see Murray as a good fit for their slightly edgier, sport-specific image. Industry experts say that New Balance have also been interested in expanding their tennis presence, although last year they signed Canada’s Milos Raonic. Rumours that Murray might revert to his old clothing partner, Fred Perry, are reckoned to be inaccurate. Regardless, the money is not likely to approach the $3 million per year that adidas have been paying the 27 year-old Scot over a period that took in his Wimbledon, US Open and Olympics triumphs. Murray shows his frustrations on court as he suffers defeat to Roger Federer at The O2 last month. The reduced upfront payment, perhaps barely half the previous sum according to industry observers, is partly due to him failing to reproduce that form in the year that saw him return from back surgery. It is also recognition that he is heading into his late twenties and that adidas replica kit sales have not been as high as hoped in what is said to be a relatively depressed market overall at present. The new deal will have to take into account that he is likely to continue wearing adidas tennis shoes, as this has been his favoured footwear since he was a teenager. Murray’s representatives did not wish to comment, although they confirmed that an announcement is expected in the next few weeks. His departure from adidas will top a year of change that saw Ivan Lendl, assistant coach Dani Vallverdu and fitness trainer Jez Green depart his team and Amelie Mauresmo installed at its head. Murray used to wear the clothing of Fred Perry but is unlikely to return to his old sponsor. Whenever she reappears Robson will be wearing the swoosh instead of the three stripes. She is currently training in Florida and her return from long-term wrist problems is increasingly likely to be in the United States rather than at the Australian Open. Emerging British No 2 Ward, who has risen to the cusp of the top 100, is expected to appear next year kitted out on court by Ted Baker. Until now the well-known British brand, whose founder Ray Kelvin is a long-established tennis nut, has restricted itself to providing suits for players and British teams when out and about at official functions but they are now looking for deeper involvement. Laura Robson has left adidas to join their major clothing rivals Nike ahead of her return to the court. British No 2 James Ward is expected to appear on court next year in tennis kit by Ted Baker.

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assistant: Andy Murray's five-year deal with adidas has come to an end. American company Under Armour are frontrunners to be his new sponsor. Laura Robson left adidas earlier this year to sign up with rivals Nike.