How browser selection in your smartphone impacts data usage and battery life

No doubt the most talked about electronic gadget world has ever found is the mobile phone, which has evolved a lot during the course of time from brick size device with very small monochrome display to compact phones with a colour display. The world has loved the device and its journey from feature phones to smart phones. If we talk about past few years smartphones has made home in almost every eligible pocket. Smartphones are a big leap forward from the conventional devices with much more power, storage, elegance and processing capabilities but very soon we found out that every manufacturer struggled in overcoming the big problem, Achilles heel of smartphones , it's battery life.

Larger displays with high resolution, superior network speeds, and plethora of apps makes smartphone power hungry and one need to take some serious steps to prevent battery drainage. While few OEMs pre load their phones with applications which keeps tab on battery monger applications, for others one can download such apps from app stores. If you are one of those who browse a lot on your smartphone then you should consider switching to a browser which saves data and battery life. Below are few browsers/apps which prolongs your smartphone's battery life and can be used as per your preference.

Chrome

Chrome has struggled to keep its battery consumption till now but development team has recently announced that new features are being added to the browser which will increase battery life of phone. Along with that, Chrome is coming up with new data compression technology named Brotli which is expected to save 20-26% data usage.

UCBrowser

The mobile browser from Alibaba’s stable uses proprietary U3 engine that is perfect to conserve battery. The browser comes with a ‘Lite Version’ that does not display large images and multimedia components but loads pages much faster. In addition, you can activate the "ad blocker", which will speed up your browsing. The Night Mode option also helps save battery as the screen turns black. 

UC Browser

Operaand Opera Mini

Cigniti’s research has shown that Opera Mini consumes 14% less battery compared to other mobile browsers. The ‘Compression Mode’ allows users to compress text and images and speed up loading of pages.

Dolphin

A special application called - Dolphin Battery Saver monitors the traffic and RAM, and reduces battery consumption by stopping unnecessary processes.