Apps That Eat Your Wireless Data

 
NEW YORK (AP) - If you have a phone with a monthly limit on the amount of data that you can use, here are some tips on what kind of cell phone use will eat your precious megabytes:

- Streaming video conferencing and video. The biggest offender. Minute YouTube video quality eats 2 megabytes. If you are on a plan that gives you 200 megabytes per month, you can not even see Lady Gaga "Telephone" video once a day. If you are a map of 2 gigabytes, you can, but not the iPhone replacement for a TV. In both cases it is to engage in YouTube and Netflix if you're on Wi-Fi.

- Streaming audio. The offender's second largest, and potentially more serious. While the video is something we must see to enjoy Internet radio is a complement to other activities such as jogging or doing the dishes. This means that some people like to keep it for hours. Sound consumes about a quarter of the data taking video, but 10 minutes a day to break the bank if you are on a plan of 200 megabytes. One hour a day of Pandora consume nearly one gigabyte, as you can afford, if you are on a level of 2 gigabytes and do not use data from other applications hogging.

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- Photo. If you are a true photographer, images can consume a considerable amount of information. Sending and viewing photos, and regarded as the monthly limit. Writing 10 images per day eating plan most of the 200 MB. If you have 2 GB plane, probably do not have to worry about image.

- Maps. Navigation applications consume a lot of data when downloading map images to a megabyte per minute. You are also likely to use them for a while when you are away from Wi-Fi, such as when driving. Attention to them.

- Navigation on the Web. Sites vary greatly in size, so it will depend very little if you want to visit sites graphically rich (a lot of data) or spare parts, text-oriented (less data). But roughly ten pages a day, eat about half of a plan of 200 megabytes. Again, take the 2-Go plans do not have to worry too much about surfing.

- Facebook. Quite similar to Web browsing. Updates will not take much data, but to send images and view photos of friends' will.

- E-mail. Most emails are small, in the form of data. Basically, you can send and receive e-mails you want, until they have attachments like photos.

- Twitter. As an e-mail, these messages do not use a lot of information, but if you follow a lot of people, and then click on the link, the use of higher.

-. Weather Apps Small, focused programs that report simple but useful things like weather, store the data (and time) from the research to the same information on a web page.