Mobile App Data Usage / Radarscope

[Dave Schliepp]

Just wanted to throw this one out there. I have been a Grlevel3 user for years and love it's small footprint on data usage. Because I am primarily a mac user (now) I run it in parallels. We recently got an iPad. I tried using GR3 in parallels and it, ok, but the lag drives me a little crazy. After reading a lot of reviews I put RadarScope on the iPad. It's also OK but it's certainly not GR3 (severely lacking in [road] map detail). To my point though, after being connected for only about 15 minutes, I noticed it used about 13MB of data on my 250MB plan! After navigating through the different radar products it was apparent (by the speed in which they display) that it downloads every product during every update. Does that sound right? Gr3 only downloads what you have selected. I's like to use RadarScope, but if it's going to eat data that quickly, it will not be an option.

 

[Spencer Terry]

Im not sure how much data Radarscope uses I have the 25 dollar plan for my Iphone but I haven't even come close to using even half my data while using Radarscope this year. That is even after running it plus two other radar apps at the same time plus gps for three days in a row. Now as far as GRL3 goes when I use it while at work all my products update within minutes of each other. The only reason I know that is our internet at work is extremely horrible and it takes ten minutes to even get a full poll to show up.

 

[Paul Townsend]

Hey Dave,

I only use Radarscope for my radar while in chase mode. I don't think I have ever used 13Mb of my 250Mb plan for the full 30 days, let alone a short period of time. If you use animation capabilities with Radarscope it severely reduces the iPad battery life, and may indeed eat up much more data (I haven't investigated the data consumption aspect, however).