Nokia releases Xpress Beta app for Lumia phones, saves time and data

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Xpress Beta from Nokia

Nokia has gone alee and pushed out a beta app for its Lumia users. The app is called Xpress (Beta) and it'due south an interesting concept, more often than not for those folks who are on tight information-plans or are roaming internationally.

In essence, the app acts every bit a gateway to Nokia's Xpress cloud service. That program takes data and compresses it before it gets to your device, cutting down on data consumption quite dramatically. Information technology'south a similar concept to what we've seen in the past with Opera Mobile which as well had a method to server-side compress data.

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The app opens with a bunch of quick-links to common services like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia etc. and you lot can add together your ain via the built in browser. Yes, the app has what looks to be an especially configured IE9 browser that runs its data through Nokia'due south servers, allowing to you compress data.

It also features a "magazine" part that makes it more like to a nice RSS feeder, striping abroad unnecessary formatting.

Nokia Xpress Beta is certainly an interesting just niche app. For those who are on plans with 2-5GB a month, there is no real benefit in using it or downloading. But for those in markets where data comes at a premium or if you're roaming internationally, Xpress Beta seems like a lifesaver.

In fact, this app looks ike information technology is destined to fill in the "gap" between Windows Telephone 7.x and Windows Phone eight as the latter will such a service "built in" to the Os. Nokia mentioned how they would do this at the June Summit and this looks to be an extension of that effort.

Nokia Lumia users can pick it up here in the Nokia Collection.

Source: Nokia; via: Plaffo.com

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