Understand Data Usage done by your Smartphone to control your telephone bills

Smartphones have really transformed our lives. These on-the-go devices are now our 'need' instead of 'wants' as it used to be few years back. Well, there's nothing wrong with that. It has really improved the standards of our life. But this article is not a debate between pros and cons of smartphones.

This article will help you understanding the bandwidth usage done by these new generation phones (many a times without your knowledge). And, in case, you are using a data plan with a limited free bandwidth then you are surely to get surprised upon seeing the bill at the end of the month.

So, whether you do have a data plan that provides good amount of free data to be used before your provider starts charging you for every KB that you use or whether you don't have much free data, it will always be beneficial to understand the approximate data usage done while using particular applications like Facebook or streaming online videos like from youtube.

Refer to the following table to get an idea of the approximate data usage done while performing the tasks mentioned here:

Watching Video on Youtube : 22 MB for 8 minutes of Video
Live Radio Streaming : 30 MB for 20 minutes of Radio
Facebook : 10 MB with 30 minutes of usage
Emails : Around 2 MB with 50 emails sent and received (Without any attachments)
Maps : 15 MB Usage of Maps navigation usage of around 30 minutes
Music : 3 MB per online song listening
Online TV : 60 MB of usage with 30 minutes of online TV viewing

Please remember the above mentioned usage is by no means exact. Like streaming of high quality video on Youtube will exhaust much more data.

Hope you enjoyed the information.

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