Use Less Mobile Data With New Chrome Feature

Posted: January 21, 2014

Using mobile data can be nerve wracking. The possibility of going over your data limit and having to pay the fee is enough to make anybody wary. Thanks to a new feature on the Google Chrome mobile app, users can cut their data usage by half.

Using mobile data can be nerve wracking. The possibility of going over your data limit and having to pay the fee is enough to make anybody wary. Thanks to a new feature on the Google Chrome mobile app, users can cut their data usage by half.

Jeremy Kirk, Australia correspondent for IDG News Service, tells us how using the Google Chrome app can help to cut your data usage.

New mobile Chrome feature can cut your data usage by up to half

Google is adding a feature to its Chrome mobile browser that can reduce data usage by up to 50 percent, which could avoid extra data charges from carriers.

The feature, which manages bandwidth and compresses data, will be in Chrome for Android and iOS, wrote Matt Welsh, a Google software engineer, on a company blog.

Chrome will have a setting called “bandwidth management” with a selection “reduce data usage” which can be toggled on. The interface will also show how much bandwidth has been saved, Welsh wrote.

Read the entire article New Mobile Chrome Feature Can Cut Your Data Usage by up to Half on Tech Hive.