Mobile
phone packages allowing unlimited data traffic are rare, and the latest phones
are encouraging us to use more data. The result is often extra charges on
bills. But you can do something about that. Onavo Extend is a free app for
iPhone and Android smartphones, from Onavo Mobile Ltd of Israel. It reduces the
amount of data you receive by routing all of it through Onavo’s servers, where
data en route to your device is compressed.
The app you download to your smartphone decompresses the data. The app can also
compress some large uploads, such as photos. Your overall data traffic can end
up being as much as five times smaller. Onavo’s trick is similar to something
Research in Motion (RIM) Ltd has been doing for Blackberry users for years.
Onavo Extend also tracks your data and offers a stripped-down version called
Onavo count that does only the measurement and not the data compression, for
Android only.
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