Opera Mini saves man from insane phone bill

November 23, 2011 · by Aleksander Aas

Opera Mini 6.5 (download) introduced the new Data Usage tracker. We got a tweet yesterday from @isman_junian showing that Opera Mini had compressed whooping 1.5 GB of data to measly 350.9 MB.

How much have you saved so far? Anyone else cruising around or over 1.5 GB?

Readers' comments 34

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TamilWednesday, November 23, 2011 12:05:00 PM
My reaction
setWednesday, November 23, 2011 12:22:02 PM
http://i.imgur.com/PsSEy.png -
Enoch 'Robot Boy' Appiah JuniorWednesday, November 23, 2011 12:22:36 PM
such a great feature.. was explaining how things work to a friend yesterday. thanks for the post..
callmegusWednesday, November 23, 2011 12:23:15 PM
Healthy solution
levis517Wednesday, November 23, 2011 12:25:46 PM
1.2 GB of data condensed 53% on Opera Mobile but that's because I keep making it load the plugins
periodWednesday, November 23, 2011 12:27:04 PM
You know what would make it even better? If You would release a dedicated Opera Mini for Samsung Bada OS!
Zdenko TimulakWednesday, November 23, 2011 12:45:19 PM
I saved 63%
João EirasWednesday, November 23, 2011 12:57:29 PM
86% !
NecromanWednesday, November 23, 2011 1:04:22 PM
That's great, but too bad there is no Opera Mini for Windows Phone 7
Rafael LuikWednesday, November 23, 2011 1:20:09 PM
Originally posted by Tamil:

My reaction

Unbelievable!
Ayesh IceWednesday, November 23, 2011 1:49:18 PM
where's data trcker on om 6.5?
Grzegorz LasekWednesday, November 23, 2011 2:15:56 PM
89%
536.1mb to
64.2mb
Charles SchlossWednesday, November 23, 2011 2:21:03 PM
89% here
Bang AlvWednesday, November 23, 2011 2:39:53 PM
Hmmm... intresting... Great
Rafael LuikWednesday, November 23, 2011 2:43:50 PM
Originally posted by MYLANKA:

where's data trcker on om 6.5?
On "Help", at the menu.
liebig92Wednesday, November 23, 2011 2:58:30 PM
Als Rentner möchte ich bei Opera bitte alles auf deutsch.
Ayesh IceWednesday, November 23, 2011 3:09:34 PM
got ya.
CarolWednesday, November 23, 2011 3:30:19 PM
saved 85% but have unlimited data plan on Version.
Ali RazaWednesday, November 23, 2011 3:43:57 PM
but data compression making mobiles (specially J2ME) unstable after some days you mobile will become slow and Opera mini wouldn't work properly all time hangout, phone restart and white blank pages
d4rkn1ghtWednesday, November 23, 2011 4:18:03 PM
CristianWednesday, November 23, 2011 4:41:07 PM
68% ... thanks Opera!
Uncle MickWednesday, November 23, 2011 7:44:49 PM
This is going to be very important to me now. My mobile carrier just changed my contract and slashed my data from 2Gb to 150Mb.
PeterWednesday, November 23, 2011 10:28:09 PM
93% - 16.8MB/237.8MB
Cutting SpoonThursday, November 24, 2011 12:18:53 AM
Average of more than 60% savings with image quality set to High in Mini, similar saving in Mobile. It's amazing! If you set Mini's images to Low or Off, the savings become astronomical.
Sami SerolaThursday, November 24, 2011 4:43:35 AM
257.2MB instead of 2GB
That's 88%
Joshua PhelpsThursday, November 24, 2011 6:53:06 AM
733.8 into 130.4 mb.

83% savings total.

Not bad. ^^
Ayesh IceThursday, November 24, 2011 7:22:29 AM
94% saving for me
Stefan ComanescuThursday, November 24, 2011 9:19:07 AM
I live in Romania and I just got a phone call from Vodafone saying that they offer a new data plan of 50mb for 1EUR/month, and that you can load 1500 pages with it. I said you can't load 1500 pages with 50mb and he was like "oh yes you can, you will be given a software named opera and blabla". So basically they are using Opera in selling data plans.
Ayesh IceThursday, November 24, 2011 12:40:15 PM
in here 1ERO - 1GB
Sajjad AhemdThursday, November 24, 2011 2:00:12 PM
85%
cool trickFriday, November 25, 2011 3:08:06 PM
65 mb to 6 mb.93 percent savings
Ab.Razaque.keerioSunday, November 27, 2011 4:21:10 AM
it's coooooooooooool it's grate.
Promit MukherjeeTuesday, December 27, 2011 2:51:03 PM
I had around 4.2 gb of compression with 79percent compression...So i used only a gb ie half of my monthly budget!
Bt I just flashed my phone!!!
Ab.Razaque.keerioSunday, January 1, 2012 5:11:03 AM