10 Tips To Reduce Data Usage On Android Phone

If you have a limited data plan from your service provider, watching videos can in fact eat up your plan quickly. If you only have a 2 gigabyte plan, you can eat away at one third of it just by watching one HD video on your smart phone. Streaming music and playing online games can also quickly use up your data plan.

To save money, try and use WiFi as much as possible. This may mean connecting at both work and at home. When you use a WiFi connection, you are not using your data plan. That means there is less of an opportunity for you to go over your allowance and get charged extra money.

Try to limit the amount of video that you watch over the web during the course of the day. Video will destroy your GB allowance as it is usually streaming and requires a lot of data to run. If you are watching YouTube videos often during the day, you may want to opt for unlimited data.




Audit your cell phone plan for a few months to make sure you have the right one for you. If it looks likely you’re almost always going over your data limit or talking minutes, then you likely need to upgrade. If you’re constantly well under your limits, you may be better off saving some money with a lesser plan.


Cellphones are pretty necessary today. The features your phone offers generally must be learned. Hopefully, the information and advice above has prepared you to go out and find the perfect phone.

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