Reviewed "Phone Usage" for android

App Name : Phone Usage
Platform: Android
Category: Communication
Price: Free
Review
Looks/space utilization/Creativity The app looks very simple, plain and to the point. The space has been utilized very well. On my Samsung S2, the usage of space, was very visible and gives a nice feeling. The icons are simple yet do what are supposed to do, communicate. The pie charts and graphs are again a good representation of data, and with techies used to seeing and interpreting data, it gives a good amount to gulp down. Features The count of messages, calls and their duration came out very well. The app claims to provide usage count of 3g data, but I didn’t test for 3g yet. One of the things which it lacked or didn’t seem to do was tracking 2g data. Something not seems to be working for it. You can set limits of various aspects and the features provided by “settings” do quite well. There are many levels of constraints which can be put to make it a fairly complex calculation. You can very well exclude certain numbers from being counted as part of the statistics and limits. The list is definitely not small. The data is well presented. For each of the functional areas, calls, messages and data, the data points are presented graphically. Home: Provides you a good view of phone usage in different buckets, like today, week, and month or further. Good usage and gives quick information. Calls: The calls section is divided to provide data spread across incoming, outgoing and both and based on period. You can view the number of calls made, volume by days and then a fun chart displaying who has been receiving most number and max volume calls from you, and vice versa. Not the best of charts to share with your wife, if your chart doesn’t show her name. SMS: The SMS section doesn’t quite similar to the above and not much to mention here. Data: The data claims to present in buckets of 3g, but I couldn’t test that out. However I was disappointed that my 2g usage wasn’t getting recorded here. Though a nice feature of displaying your top apps at the bottom brings your smile back. Screens Here is how the app looks on my Samsung S2. Screen 1: The main screen of the app. Screen 2: Settings Screen 3: Calls Screen 4: Top apps
Opportunities
1. The UI can be upgraded and it can provide some customization around graphical representations and type of charts.
Final rating
3.5/5 For a free app, this really does very well. Feature rich, useful, quite extensively data centric. All their adjectives makes it a nice app, hence can be tried for a while it you get accustomed to it. I liked it, and it’s not moving out of my phone very soon. Legends: (1-Don’t think about it. 2-timepass 3-Really an app 4-Creative, and rich 5-Must Have)

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