Our flat rate for mobile data is never enough. The consumption of multimedia content, visiting social networks and chatting with our friends can cause our "megabytes" to decrease considerably, something that is not pleasant for any user. If you have a phone with Android, here we show you different ways to control and reduce your consumption.
While these tips will help you reduce your mobile data consumption, the effectiveness of the methods may vary depending how we use our "megabytes" or what applications are the ones we use the most. However, you will really realize that you can significantly delay your flat rate or voucher.
Disable the data manually: Although it is quite obvious, many users still do not "cut" their data, be it 3G or 4G, which will not save data and also battery. Of course, the negative part is that we will not receive email alerts or anything like that.
Enable data compression in Chrome: If Chrome is your favorite browser, it has a tool on Android that allows you to compress the data and consume much less than usual. The only downside is that, for example, the images will look lower quality.
Opera mini and MAX, an alternative browser and manager: These applications stand out above all for their incredible and effective data compression, achieving savings of up to 90% under ideal conditions. Downloading a 10 MB video with only 3 MB is possible with Opera MAX, although it is still in beta.
Control the quality of Youtube video and audio in Spotify: These multimedia streaming applications have various quality ranges and logically, the higher it is, the more data we will consume on our Android. Both services allow us to change the quality to improve consumption, although in the case of Spotify, we will have to be Premium users - this is also possible in other applications such as Deezer-.
Find free Wi-Fi hotspots: There are applications like FreeZone that allow us to find totally free Wi-Fi access points so as not to make use of our flat rate.
Cache Google Maps maps: Google Maps allows you to download areas of your maps for offline use. This option is quite important if we want to save data and it is really easy to use as we explained. in this article.
Compress your images before sending them: Applications like AVG Image Shrinker allow you to compress your images so that when we send them, we need much less mobile data.
As you can see, there are quite a few tricks to squeeze the most out of your Android data and, as always, if you are interested in these tutorials, you can find many more at our dedicated section.
