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Samsung Max data-saving app picks up where Opera Max left off (for Samsung phones only)

Opera pulled the plug on its Opera Max data saver app last year, but now Samsung says it has a new app designed to replace Opera Max. Like its predecessor, the new Samsung Max app offers a data saving mode and privacy protection feature. But unlike Opera Max, the new app will only be available […]

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Opera Max data saver app pulled from Google Play Store

Opera’s mobile web browser has a data savings feature that lets you optionally have Opera’s servers compress data before sending it to your phone, thus cutting down on your bandwidth usage. A few years ago Opera took the data savings beyond the web browser by introducing Opera Max, an app that lets Android users compress […]

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Opera Max can cut music streaming bandwidth by half

The makers of the Opera web browser launched a service called Opera Max last year, enabling Android users to cut their mobile bandwidth usage. It does that by routing your internet traffic through a remote server which compresses data before sending it to your phone. At launch Opera Max was able to reduce file sizes for images, text, […]

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Opera Max makes mobile data go further by compressing all your Android app data usage

The makers of the Opera web browser have been offering optional data compression for almost a decade. Enable compression and Opera will use remote servers to shrink the file size of images and other online content before sending it to your browser in order to cut down on your bandwidth usage. Now Opera is getting […]