Chinese manufacturers like Huawei, ZTE, and Tecno started producing sub-$50 Android phones running 2.3 Gingerbread. These phones had a real touchscreen and the official Facebook app ( .apk ). The .jar died instantly.

As a result, most files named wap facebook chat.jar floating around the internet were created by third-party developers or modified from existing chat clients like , Nimbuzz , or Mig33 . This introduced significant risks: