DroidStats, an application to control the smartphone and data consumption in Android

Most mobile operators usually offer us data bonds limited with which we can study a particular traffic (500 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, etc) a month and once the limit is reached, suffer a degradation in service or, worse, suffering a financial penalty on our bill and pay a surcharge for excess traffic. Connecting our smartphone to Wi-Fi wherever we can is a good way to avoid overspending but still, it hurts to put the necessary measures to control our consumption.

In the case of having a smartphone with Android, through Google Play, we find a number of applications to control data consumption of your mobile device, in my opinion, we can provide much more information than the typical widget that default Android offers us also to do this kind of measurements. If we expand our view of consumption that we have our data package or even in voice calls, we need a much more complete implementation, for example, DroidStats can help much in this regard.

What is DroidStats ? DroidStats is a free application for Android devices (although there is also a paid version with additional functionality) that allows us to monitor telephone calls we make, send SMS messages and data traffic we have completed. The idea is that in addition to display the counters, we can establish that an Alert thresholds of overspending or is close to the limit we have contracted with our mobile operator (and thus avoid being charged a penalty for excess consumption line).

The application, as we mentioned, is free although there is also a paid version that allows us to have widgets in addition to those included and therefore aim to show more information without having to directly access the application. With regard to the installation and use, the truth is that we will find things pretty easy sinceDroidStats is available for all Android devices with version 2.1 or higher and, with respect to the configuration, it's not difficult to adjust the counters .

DroidStats is a good way to avoid unpleasant surprises on your phone bill .