Honey, I Shrunk the Mobile Data Use!

gigaom.com — Onavo, a free iOS app that launched last month claims to help iPhone and iPad users reduce the amount of monthly bandwidth on their 3G-enabled devices. Onavo compresses application data in the cloud and has already saved iOS owners 500,000 MB of data in three weeks. May 23, 2011 View in Crawl 4

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geraldnilles May 24, 2011

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Hasn't RIM been doing this.... forever?

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jeffdabeat May 24, 2011

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Yes, but this is a third party offering to do it...not Apple.

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geolemon May 24, 2011

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That means one of two things:

1) you either need to jailbreak your iPhone to do this, which puts you in the land of the hunted and unsupported, with Apple shutting down that jailbreak as soon as they can, or

2) Apple will shut this loophole down directly as soon as they can

If Apple didn't offer it, it can't exist.

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jeffdabeat May 24, 2011

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Not true...Apple allowed the Opera Browser which only got approved because it did something different than Safari and that was compressing data through a proxy server... Also, it's in the App Store which means Apple has already approved it...so yeah...