Ways to browse and use less data?

[kf4qhk]

Hey guys,

I just took a position where I have a tablet whose sole purpose is to provide the hotspot to power the phone. I have no computer.

I powered up the Tablet today, and for this billing cycle (I am halfway through, it hasn't been used until yesterday) it has about 180 MB used. About 100 of it is the phone, and I used the 80 today on the internet. (No videos, just some facebook and email and 1 app download.)

I have a 2 GB limit. How can I browse and keep it under 2GB?

Also, what is Verizon's charge, per GB (or is it MB) if you go over their 2GB?

Thanks.

Jeremy

 

[jefboyardee]

TextOnly -Browser is exactly what you’re asking for, but may also be exactly what you don’t want.

 

[kf4qhk]

All I want to do is to read text on different forums that I get on, and to read FB status updates, and post ads on Craigslist.

 

[jefboyardee]

A text-only browser does use less data and therefore less juice, but the readability of the sites you load are a crapshoot. Some may work just fine while others, particularly graphic-intensive ones, may be useless. I imagine Craigslist would work fine.

 

[ebusinesstutor]

Monitor what your other apps are doing. Many apps continually look for updates or info on the web even when you aren't running them. I restrict them to wireless only.

 

[Dracconus]

You can also use other browsers to gain accelerated options. Mozilla just came out with firefox for android, and knowing them they kept the :config options that Mozilla has standard so you can set buffer length, image quality, precache, etc.

Opera Mini (for java) has a few of these options as well.

 

[De@n]

Opera mini