Saturday, 17 November 2012

ONAVO EXTEND; NEW APP COULD HELP REDUCE DATA CHARGES

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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