Posted by laffen
Nokia has released Xpress Internt beta app for Lumia smartphones which promises up to 90% compression of downloaded internet data
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[ This Message was edited by: laffen on 2012-10-04 12:12 ]
Posted by Bonovox
Just downloaded this yesterday gonna have a play around later not used it much yet.
Posted by hihihans
Now I really want my Lumia back. I used to love Opera Mini, if Nokia done well it will give us highspeedturbo browsing.
Posted by Bonovox
Yes,only in Beta but still look promising. They do that with their Asha phones heavily compress the data but web still looks good. My brother has a cheap Asha 302 and in one month he only used 30mb
Posted by Supa_Fly
This is a HUGE deal! With data prices going up worldwide, the consumption of data has never been this paramount or as demanded with the likes of smartphones today and to date only 1 other company had stressed compression of data to the needs of the end user and saving via Economies of Scale for network providers.
Posted by jplacson
Does this compress torrent and streaming video files? What about video conferencing? If all it does it compress HTML data and jpegs, that's quite insignificant.
My data usage on my phone (sans Google Video chat, and file downloads) is under 300MB/month, this includes 24/7 Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Gmail, Kik, Whatsapp, Google Maps, and Viber activity.
Google Video chat and file downloads shoot that up to about 5GB/month.
Posted by laffen
I doubt it will compress anything else but data transferred from and to the browser. And the 90% claim is probably for uncompressed text only. Modern browsers such as Webkit (Safari/Android Stock browser/Chrome) are already capable of handling zip-compressed text. It is not much more to gain by compressing these even further. But there are still web sites which do not serve compressed text, which the new Nokia browser will be able to compress a lot.
http://www.microsoft.com/search/tools/
[ This Message was edited by: laffen on 2012-10-07 13:05 ]
Posted by Supa_Fly
On 2012-10-05 07:01:37, jplacson wrote:
Does this compress torrent and streaming video files? What about video conferencing? If all it does it compress HTML data and jpegs, that's quite insignificant.
My data usage on my phone (sans Google Video chat, and file downloads) is under 300MB/month, this includes 24/7 Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Gmail, Kik, Whatsapp, Google Maps, and Viber activity.
Google Video chat and file downloads shoot that up to about 5GB/month.
How many websites can you surf in the time it takes for you to bittorrent a file on your smartphone/PC?
Now lets add heavy RAW/JPG/PNG/GIF images, varying fonts (languages), etc. Let's now add Flash sites ... let's consider ALL of this when you're roaming!! Trust me compression doesn't sound all glitsy and fashionable to tell the kiddies but when it saves real $$$ in your pocket when roaming for 2wks at a time trust me you'll be kissing it! European carriers don't empty your wallets on roaming like Canadian/Mexico/USA carriers do.
Posted by Bonovox
I have used this on my Lumia 800 its not bad actually obviously not perfect yet. But you can change image quality mode too.