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Pokemon Go is fairly low data usage, 10-20 MB per hour of play (which this document lists) is nothing compared to the hundreds of megabytes you can blow in 10-2
by ultramancool 10y ago
Pokemon Go is fairly low data usage, 10-20 MB per hour of play (which this document lists) is nothing compared to the hundreds of megabytes you can blow in 10-20 minutes streaming video.
Few other apps go out of their way to make similar warnings, instead they rely on the OS to do this for you, Android at least allows you to set both a warning and a stop point for your data consumption very easily. Many mobile providers prevent surprises to their customers by sending a text at 50%, 75%, 90% and then stopping unless they reply at 100%.
- xanderstrike 10y agoAnd 10-20MB/hr is a massive overestimation. I've been playing virtually nonstop for a week and Android calculates its usage at 193MB...
- ultramancool 10y agoYeah, on the other hand I had a buggy weather app that managed to use 2 GB of data in a period of a few hours, while I wasn't even looking at it.
- nilved 10y agoIf you download Google Maps, this is probably even lower. I had maps downloaded before Pokemon Go came out, and my data usage is below 20 mb.
- nilved 10y agoIf you download Google Maps, this is probably even lower. I had maps downloaded before Pokemon Go came out, and my data usage is below 20 mb.