Nokia Xpress for Windows Phone 8, Data Sense Alternative

Data Sense service for IE is one feature, which everyone will, love to have because it is capable of saving tons of bandwidth for Mobile users, but sadly it only works if your network provider supports it.

So what’s the alternative ? Nokia Xpress which is basically, a browser but comes with a lot of features all aimed to reduce your bandwidth usage on Windows Phone 8. Since its powered by cloud, in fact, it uses the Nokia’s cutting edge cloud Internet platform, which takes care of delivering any web page you visit often. Most of the popular websites are already supported.

How Nokia Xpress Works

Features of Nokia Xpress :

Monitor Data Usage: 

  • Percentage of bandwidth saved
  • Individual details on the amount of  data consumed over the cellular network and Wi-Fi
  • Other data usage like Smart Text, Skydrive Uploads, Image Downloads, Translation and Magazine
  • Live Tile can display this percentage.

However does not include any counter for video streaming.

Nokia Xpress Settings

Magazine:  It clears up complex web pages into simple readable web page when you save any online page as Magazine. You will be prompted for this when you visit a website for the first time. You can also do it manually from the menu bar.

When you save a Magazine, it can find all the links inside that page and create page by page stories for you in magazine style. You can quickly flip across them and hit “Get full story” for more.

Nokia Xpress Magazine

Save WebPage : If you do not wish to save a website as Magazine, you can save it as it is using this option in the menu bar. It just creates an offline copy on your phone which opens up instantly when accessed.

Save content to SkyDrive: You can store images and videos from websites to SkyDrive without wasting any upload bandwidth. It connects with your SkyDrive account and saves file using the API. This way you really can save files on the move.

Browser features :

  • Multiple Tabs with easy switch support
  • In Page Search – tap on a word and discover related content with automatic contextual search.  Currently supported by Wikipedia, Bing and YouTube.
  • Quickly translate any web page which is not in a language you understand

Download Nokia Xpress

You will need to go to Store on your phone and scroll down to the end. Else use this QR Code.

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