At today's Facebook F8 developer congress, the company introduced the Account Kit, a new universal connectivity system that can work through a non-password phone.
Facebook's new Account Kit will let developers create products, where users can register with just their phone number, no passwords required, and the developer needs to write the code that manages all the registration and login sequences.
All this will be done through a special SDK, which developers will have to integrate into the services them (in websites or applications).
Users will be able to log in by simply typing their phone number into a page or app that uses the Account Kit, to receive an SMS with the password. So the user creates his account without having to give a password that he has to remember.
Facebook claims to support SMS connectivity in over 230 countries and in 40 different languages.
To make the new feature even more appealing, Facebook has announced that every 100.000 developer has free SMS confirmation messages a month.
Let's also mention that the new Account Kit is not limited to users who have a Facebook account.
The new service has already been tested on different websites, offered to help with testing the beta SDK.
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