Hi wmtoandroid,
We ran some tests ourselves and we didn't find this sort of excessive data upload. We tested with Traffic Counter and found a ratio of about 6:1 for ordinary browsing and about 16:1 for video viewing.
Is it possible that some other app on the phone was uploading in the background while using Skyfire?
If not, then could you tell us more about the situation, including the phone you are using and the version of Android?
Thank you for the reply. I've updated to the latest Skyfire version and ran the tests again.
When using text-based pages, the upload data remained relatively low, however, when I played video's (from Howcast on this test), the upload ratio dramatically changed and is now 4:1 (download vs upload and get's larger if i continue to run videos).
The only application that could upload that much data off my phone would be sugarsync, but I would have to explicitly open the software and confirm that a sync be made. I haven't run it for days.
I'm using Spare Parts to read the upload/download data and even using something like Net Counter will confirm the high upload rate as well (although it won't give the app using this data).
I have an HTC Legend with stock OS 2.1. Let me know if there are other things I can do to test this further.