OK, here's a challenge that some of us can get behind.
Yeah, smartphones are now ubiquitous, and honestly they're quite useful. But, is our phone-clown use costing us a lot of money? Or worse, are we
addicted?
I've got an iPhone 5, and regularly use it for browsing, messaging apps, and streaming music (I have a bit of a Spotify habit). I use Facebook via the mobile browser after I realised that the app auto-loads videos. My data use, while not in the realm of those that use 5GB+ a month, is still pretty hefty. For the last few months I've averaged between 1.5-2.5GB per month. That doesn't include any use on WiFi.
Where I am now, it's 9:50pm on the 30th of April. My mobile plan works on calendar months, so I'm about to tick over to a new month. As of now, my mobile provider is showing I've used 2351MB (including wasting a fair bit earlier today) for April. For the month of May, I'm aiming to keep it under half that, 1175MB. Extra points if I can keep it to below 1GB :)
It's not going to save me an awful lot of money (changing to the next data tier down (1500MB) will only save me $3 a month), but it's about more than just the money. :)
Who else is in? Who has some suggestions to reduce data use?