The mobile carrier in my area has a special promotion of providing cheap data service but only 50 MB.
I want to know if this is enough for basic data usage. How do you determine how much data your phone is using? For example, how much data does Facebook eat up if it's running in the background?
Thanks!
A couple of things. First off while most of what everyone is saying is true, its also based on power users. So take what they say with a grain of salt. How much data you use will be based on network speed, what you do with the device, and your personal habits. To give you an idea, doing nothing else, and having a solid 3G network you would eat through 50MB in about two day. Four at the absolute outside.
You had asked about background services and how much they eat up. Your example being Facebook. *scratches head* that is like asking how many MPG a car in the US gets. Its relative to the car model. In this case its relative to what you have enabled on the device. Just setting up a Google account and having it sync from the cloud would most likely eat up 50MB in a half week. Add other services that are integrated into Samsung's touchwiz interface like weather, twitter, Facebook. Check your email a few times, browse a bit and you will find yourself blowing past 50MB in short order. You may not need 1GB of data. but IMHO at minimum 800MB. And that is assuming you tweak the device to make sure it isn't sipping data all the time which is difficult. You need to keep in mind that the S3 is a social device that was designed for always on internet. A good comparison would be trying to use Steam on a dial up connection. It wasn't designed for dial up, its an app that requires a big o fat pipe. 50MB sounds as if it was a promo designed for lower end devices, not the S3. If you mist have an app to keep track of the data you use do a search on the play store for Traffic Counter. Good app to monitor on a per app basis where your data is going.
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