Data allowance is one's ticket to vast knowledge and entertainment database also known as the internet. However, it still doesn't come inexpensive despite the ISP competition getting much fiercer, as media streaming is about to become the standard in home and mobile entertainment. This is where Opera Max comes in--a free Android app designed to optimize multimedia streaming.
Streaming music on mobile phones is growing immensely popular. It can light up anyone's mood when and wherever they are, as long as they have a strong connection to the internet. However, streaming music would more than likely zip through a user's data plan, even more so as the audio quality of tracks cranked up a notch. Opera Max with its latest update is now capable of saving music streaming data by as much as 50 percent in Android apps such as Pandora, Slacker or YouTube Music.
Opera Max does this by converting an app's mp3 or mp4 format to the more efficienct AAC+ format. Many would argue that converting to the latter would more than likely cause music streaming quality to take a hit, but the downsizing isn't relatively that big of a loss. To put it into perspective, it's quantity over quality, albeit the trade-off isn't that much just to save up a huge chunk of a user's data plan.
For the uninitiated, streaming music and even using the radio would require bandwidth and data. Simply by streaming audio for nine hours straight would yield an estimate of 1GB in data usage. While this isn't too much of a problem for users connected to their home networks, those using mobile data would easily blaze through their data plans in a matter of hours.
With Opera Max, users can save up more data as it can crunch down streaming video and audio. It can even help users monitor their data usage and keep track of how much data they have used on both local wireless connection and mobile internet, thus giving more flexibility and control of one's data plan.
