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Facebook has rolled out a new mobile service, named, quite simply, 0.facebook.com, for the fact that the service should cost the users it’s targeted at literally nothing.

According to an update to the Facebook blog, the new mobile Facebook service has been designed specifically so that it’s both quick to access and free. Moreover, the 0 service aims to fit all of the same features features as the more standard m.facebook.com mobile version of the site, though it does of course boast the fairly impressive bonus of being free for use in any countries and with any carriers that offer it; users won’t be expected to pay any data charges for their use of the service, which should open Facebook mobile up in a big way.

The fact that the service is free should help draw more users into Facebook’s mobile setup, but it should be noted that it doesn’t extend to pictures viewed through Facebook, for which standard data charges will apply. For that reason, 0.facebook.com is set not to display any images by default, instead requiring users to click through to view any photos they, or their friends, may have uploaded.

Graphics hardware manufacturer Nvidia is apparently working on a tablet computer of its own; continuing the trend of tablet devices running mobile operating systems, the device is based on Google’s Android mobile OS.

Word of the device comes via tech blog Gizmodo, which managed to get its hands on a bundle of fairly technical details about the device, not least of which the fact that it’s an 8.9-inch, widescreen, capacitive-touch based display and boasts the latest version of Nvidia’s low power mobile graphics kit, the Tegra 2 and 1GB of RAM. It’s also touting an ARM Cortex A9, which should ensure that it’s very capable indeed in terms of plain-old number crunching.

Curiously, and perhaps most importantly for those currently looking at the iPad (and let’s face it, the similarities are fairly plain to see), the device also boasts two USB ports, which should assure all kinds of interesting inter-device connectivity with any other bits and pieces people can think to plug it into.

All that aside, the whole affair is pretty intriguing, especially considering the fact that Nvidia doesn’t typically go in for hardware production for consumer electronics like this, tending instead to provide the kit that makes this kind of equipment work out for other companies. To that end, it’s very interesting indeed to see that the developers who were showing the device off have said that, while they don’t know anything about the date, it will be released at some stage.

It’s curious to see yet another tablet device going with a mobile OS, given the fact that the one similar tablet device that had built an awful lot of hype around the idea of it running a desktop OS (HP’s Slate) has fallen off the radar somewhat since HP’s acquisition of Palm… something that many have taken to indicate that the company is instead going to be focussing its tablet efforts on Web OS.