Do you run a tight ship when it comes to your mobile data plan? Perhaps you find yourself always going over and racking up a hefty excess on your bill? Maybe you are just worried about data charges whilst you’re roaming? Well, Onavo Mobile have a solution. Sort of.
What their app actually does is genuinely pretty cool, on paper. It redirects any data you may have downloading to your iPhone, compresses it down on their cloud-servers and then spits it back out to you at a fraction of the size. What this potentially gives you is a whole heap more browsing freedom for your money as each item takes up a fraction of your data allowance compared to what it used to. The app can even segment how your data is spent and shows it all on a nice little color chart, which is handy, along with how much data you have already spent, of course. Video is the one aspect that Onavo cannot handle at this point in time, so do not go watching YouTube on your travels, never say never though, even that might get included in time.
Tuning on the "savings" option means that the app is on track of your downloads. The app only compresses the downloads you do through your iPhone. But thats pretty much the main thing you are going to do anyway download. Its also got your email covered if you are using a Microsoft Exchange setup.
The UI of the app is quite simple and intuitive and you will feel at home in no time. At the bottom of the app interface you will find two tabs, labeled Data Saver, which is the primary screen from which you control the app and Reports, where you go to look at the detailed information about the data Onavo has saved so far.
The detailed month chart supposedly gives you the amount of saved megabytes out of the estimated total amount of downloaded data. Those are broken down into the particular apps and services that used them various services further down.
