How many gigabytes does a mobile phone use per day, per week or per month?

Although the data bonuses that operators offer us are getting bigger (or even endless), the fear of running out of data is a hidden fear. We could get a nasty surprise if we don't control this type of spending and lose the entire data voucher within a few days if the app gets mixed up with spending in the background. For this reason, we will see how to control gigabytes of data on Android and iPhone mobile .

Most Android phones on the market allow you to monitor your spending data by having precise information about the number of gigabytes spent each month, or by viewing it more daily. Although access may vary slightly depending on each level of personalization, the method for accessing this information is the same across all terminals.

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• Manage gigs on Android View consumption
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In addition to the already available data, the graph shows the potential growth in mobile data consumption. In just 5 years, analysts predict more than 20 GB/month per smartphone , and this is almost 4 times more than now!

How many downloads does a smartphone have on average per month?
Recently I came across statistics about how many GB are per mobile network user. The data is quite unexpected :
Thanks to instant messengers, we communicate and exchange photos with family, we spend time on Youtube on the way to work, and we use navigators to find our way. And all this requires mobile data. It would seem that unused applications are completely harmless in terms of traffic consumption, but this is not the case.
Many of them can “hang” in the background for a long time even after closing, which means they consume not only the gadget’s resources, but also precious megabytes. There is only one way out - to leave on the device only those programs that we use.

Control gigabytes on iPhone

Apple iPhone also allows us to control our mobile data consumption so that gigabytes don't disappear too quickly. We can see this by going to Settings and selecting Mobile Data. Once inside, we can see the current data costs as well as the consumption of installed applications. Next to each application we will see a switch that serves to disable data usage in a specific application.

To know exactly the gigabytes spent, we need to click on the “Reset statistics” option. This way we will know from now on the data spent every day and rest in our course.

How much internet traffic do you need?

1 music video. Here everything depends on the size of the audio clip (we will talk about the mp3 format) - its length, and quality (bitrate). Again, if you average, then count on 3-5 MB per listen or download. How much internet do you need for a tablet?

How much internet do you need for a netbook, laptop or computer?

First of all, 1 MB (megabyte) contains 1024 KB (kilobytes), and 1 GB (gigabyte) contains 1024 MB. Accordingly, an Internet package of 500 MB is conditionally 0.5 GB, but to be precise, a little less.

If you plan to spend more time on the Internet, but do not intend to download movies or music, plus take care to disable updates, then 3-5 GB of traffic should be enough for a month of daily work.

Up to 1 GB

With this tariff, the most you can do is browse the Internet, read news and use instant messenger. It’s better to compress pictures and other graphics as much as possible, or even better to disable it all in the browser. If you listen to music online, watch GIF animation or video, then the traffic will end by the evening. 10 songs is already about 100 MB, that is, 1/10 of the tariff.

You can choose a tariff with such a limit if you download all the music and other information to your smartphone in advance. But it will be difficult to find such a valid offer; packages with a minimum of 4 GB of traffic are now available. Everything below is archived rates.

Streaming video

Streaming video is watching movies or videos online, which requires good Internet speed and preferably unlimited (at least large enough) mobile traffic.

For fans of streaming video, 2 GB per month will most likely not be enough. Traffic consumption in this case depends on the length of the video and the selected resolution. To use up all 2 GB, it is enough to watch just a couple of videos in HD, in a very high and good quality format. At the same time, three five-minute videos a day in medium resolution (relatively low quality) can take up less than 100 megabytes. This means that the consumption of a package with 2 GB will take about 20 days, but only if you do not spend the Internet on anything else.

Tip: If you want to watch videos from your smartphone, it is best to do so via Wi-Fi where the connection is free, for example, in public places. Download videos for offline viewing before leaving home if you have a landline Internet connection at home for a relatively small fee, and it should be an unlimited connection.

If you often watch online broadcasts, conduct your own streams and do not want to limit your access to the Internet and traffic, the best option in this case is unlimited Internet, which you will have to pay for.

Baud Rate Unit Conversion Table

What are the units of information bit (bit) and byte (byte)

To make it clearer, we will have to explain everything in more detail and start, so to speak, from the beginning. However, I will try to convey information without abstruse mathematical formulas and terms. The fact is that there are several positional number systems. I will not list them, since this is not necessary.

Binary and decimal number systems

The most famous of them, which we all encounter every day, is the decimal system. In it, any number consists of digits (from 0 to 9), each of which is a digit, occupying a strictly corresponding position. Moreover, the bit depth increases from right to left (units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.).

Take for example the number 249, which can be represented as the sum of the products of the digits by 10 to the power corresponding to the given digit:

249 = 2×10 2 + 4×10 1 + 9×10 0 = 200 + 40 + 9

Thus, the zero digit is units (10 0), the first is tens (10 1), the second is hundreds (10 2), etc. In a computer, as in other electronic devices, all information is distributed into files () and encoded accordingly in a digital format, and due to ease of use, the binary number system is used, which I will discuss separately.

In the binary system, numbers are represented using just two digits: 0 and 1. Let's try to write the number 249, which we have already discussed, in the binary system to understand its essence. To do this, divide it by 2, obtaining an integer quotient with a remainder of 1. This one will be the lowest digit, which, as in the case of the decimal system, will be on the far right.

Next, we continue the division operation and each time we also divide the integers by 2, leaving a remainder of 0 or 1. We write them sequentially from right to left, ultimately obtaining 249 in the binary system. The division operation should be carried out until the result is zero:

249/2 = 124 (1 remainder) 124/2 = 62 (0 remainder) 62/2 = 31 (0 remainder) 31/2 = 15 (1 remainder) 15/2 = 7 (1 remainder) 7/2 = 3 (remainder 1) 3/2 = 1 (remainder 1) 1/2 = 0 (remainder 1)

Now we write down the numbers in the remainder sequentially from right to left and get our experimental number in the binary system:

11111001

So that there are no dark spots left, we will carry out the reverse operation and try to convert the same number from the binary to the decimal system, at the same time checking the correctness of the above steps. To do this, we again multiply in order from left to right zero or one by 2 to the power corresponding to the digit (by analogy with the decimal system):

1×2 7 + 1×2 6 + 1×2 5 + 1×2 4 + 1×2 3 + 0×2 2 + 0×2 1 + 1×2 0 = 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 249

As you can see, everything worked out, and we were able to convert a number written in the binary system to its representation in the decimal number system.

How many bits are in a byte when using the binary system in computer science

It was not for nothing that I provided a brief mathematical excursion just above, since it is the binary system that serves as the basis of measurement used in electronic devices. The basic unit of information amount, equal to a digit in the binary system, is precisely the bit.

This term comes from the English phrase b

inary dig
it
(
bit
), which means binary number. Thus, a bit can take only two possible values: 0 or 1. In computer science, this means two completely equal results in terms of probability (“yes” or “no”) and does not allow any other interpretation.

This is very important from the point of view of correct operation of the system. Go ahead. The number of bits that a computer processes at one time is called a byte.

. 1 byte is equal to 8 bits and, accordingly, can take one of 2 8 (256) values, that is, from 0 to 255:

So, we now know for certain what a byte is and what role it plays as a unit of measurement when processing information stored and processed digitally. By the way, in the international format, a byte can be designated in two ways - byte or B.

You can convert numbers in decimal format to binary using a calculator. If you have Windows 7, you can call this tool like this: Start - All Programs - Accessories - Calculator. In the “View” menu, select the “Programmer” format

and enter the desired number (in my example it is 120):

Now turn on the radio buttons “Bin” and “1 byte”, after which you get a record of this number in the binary system:

What should you pay attention to here? Firstly

, the line on the display shows only seven bits (bits with the value zero or one), although we already know that there should be eight of them if the byte value is from 0 to 255:

Everything is simple here. If the most significant digit (bit), located on the far left, takes the value 0, then it is simply not written. Two or more zero bits are also omitted (by analogy with decimal numbers - after all, we do not write 0 thousand to hundreds, for example).

The proof can be the full record of the resulting number, which is displayed in small print just below:

0111 1000

If you are careful, you will see that here secondly

.
This is a way of writing in two parts, each of which consists of four bits. In computer science, there is also such a concept as a nibble, or nibble
. This is convenient because a nibble can be represented as a digit in the hexadecimal system, which is widely used in programming.

It takes more than 1 byte to process the data - what then?

Above we talked about the fact that a byte contains eight bits. This allows you to express 256 (two to the eighth power) different values. However, in practice, this is generally far from sufficient and in many cases it is necessary to use not one, but several bytes. As an example, let's use the Windows calculator again and convert the number 1000 to binary:

As you can see, to do this we had to pinch off a couple of bits from the second byte. In practice, computers use such a concept as a machine word

, which can contain 16, 32, 64 bit.

With their help, you can express 2 16, 2 32 and 2 64 different values, respectively. But in this case we cannot talk about 2, 4 or 8 bytes, these are slightly different things. From here the legs grow from mentioning, for example, 32-, 64-bit (-bit) processors or other devices.

With any application?

There are applications that allow us to show monthly expenses in gigabytes even more precisely . In addition, they allow us to add direct access widgets to the desktop of our mobile phone so that these expenses are always visible. One of the most popular is My Data Manager.

This application for Android and iPhone allows constant monitoring of mobile data . It even allows us to know which websites consume the most data and offer us information about the most conflicting applications in data consumption.