Onavo begins assault on high Android data usage

Android’s got a taste for data. Users of the operating system have been shown to use more data than other smartphone users according to Nielsen, and while that might have been okay in the era of unlimited data plans, it’s becoming more of an issue as mobile data usage gets capped by carriers.

But help is on the way from Onavo, a clever free mobile application that compresses data on iOS devices and helps reduce data consumption by up to 80 percent. The Isreali start-up, which recently raised $3 million from Sequoia, is coming out with its first Android app called Onavo Lite. Unfortunately, the Android version doesn't include Onavo’s signature data shrinking technology. The app does however come with some very solid tools that should help Android users better understand and manage their data usage.