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Your smartphone consumes data every time you browse the web, email, download images or use certain applications. Use the table below to determine how much data is used to perform certain tasks associated with 1 GB.
| Online activity | Approximate size | Approximate volume at 1 GB |
| Instant messages | 0.024 MB | 42,667 |
| Email, plain text | 0.035 MB | 29,257 |
| Email with attachments (Excel, Word) | 0.2 MB | 5,120 |
| Web pages | 0.3 MB | 3,413 |
| Digital photos | 1 MB | 1,024 |
| YouTube video (one minute) | 2.9 MB | 353 |
| MP3 download | 4 MB | 256 |
| Online gaming (one hour) | 30 MB | 34 |
| SD movies (100 minutes) | 700 MB | 1.5 |
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