Why Do Android Smartphones Guzzle the Most Data?
By BRIAN X. CHEN DECEMBER 31, 2013
Android smartphones are kind of like Hummers. Reminiscent of the oversize, gas-guzzling S.U.V.'s, Androids have the biggest screens and tend to use much more data than other types of smartphones, including iPhones. And that higher data usage could rack up heftier phone bills.
In a recent study, Ericsson, the networking company, found that global mobile Internet traffic varied greatly, depending on the software system and the network that a phone uses.
But the highest average data consumption was seen on Android phones, which consumed an average of 2.2 gigabytes of data a month on one network, the study said. By contrast, iPhones used roughly 1.7 gigabytes a month and Windows phones used approximately 1.4 gigabytes a month, Ericsson found.
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