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Opera Max can now be found preinstalled on devices from 14 OEMs

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It looks like your smartphone could have yet another pre-installed application on it, as Opera today announced that its data-saving application Opera Max can now be found installed on handsets from 14 OEMs. After today’s announcement, Opera is expecting to see Opera Max on over 100 million Android-based smartphones by 2017. That’s an impressive number, but just how useful will Opera Max be to consumers? Or will it be shoved away in a folder somewhere, along with the other masses of bloatware?

Opera created a handy video explaining how Opera Max work, but the gist is that Opera Max grab traffic coming to your phone and routes it through Opera’s servers, where a handful of data-saving techniques are applied. This could include compressing images on a web page or optimizing HTML and CSS. Opera says these techniques could bring down regular data consumption by nearly 50 percent, while bringing down power user consumption by nearly 60 percent.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Opera in the past has had 11 partners bringing Opera Max to smartphones, but the latest to join in this partnership is Acer, Hisense, and TWZ. That means you can now find Opera Max preloaded on smartphones from those three manufacturers, along with Cherry Mobile, Evercoss, Mobiistar, Fly, TWZ  Micromax, Oppo, Prestigio, Samsung, Symphony, and Xiaomi.

There are obviously some privacy concerns with Opera Max routing all of your traffic through Opera’s own servers, but they have yet to be addressed.

Opera Software has been experiences some downfalls in revenue, and as a result, the company is considering looking for a buyer. With that in mind, there’s no telling what the future is for Opera Software’s many products.

Have you used Opera Max before? What are your thoughts on data-management services like this?

source: TechCrunch

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