Opera Max Is the Little App That Saves Your Bandwidth

BARCELONA, Spain — Among the myriad of app companies presenting at ShowStoppers, a show the accompanies Mobile World Congress, Opera had one of the most pragmatic apps

Opera Max has one goal: to save your bandwidth. It compresses data on its servers before sending to the end user. The company already uses it in its browsers, such as the Opera Mini, but this time, it’s not only web pages that are compressed — it’s also videos, photos and other types of data

The app is extremely simple to use. Start it up, and it lingers in the background, saving your data. Unless you’re adamant about experiencing the best possible video and photo quality on your smartphone, we see no reason why you shouldn’t try it out. Opera claims it’ll shave a good 50% of your mobile bandwidth during typical use, and many of us could do well with a lower mobile data bill Read more...