Apps To Monitor Phone Usage

So, you get your cellphone bill and expect the regular bill amount, only to open the envelope or the email and  step back to see your bill isn't supposed to be this high!!!!

You query the bill to customer services and get that you've gone over your minutes, your data usage was extremely high or that you've been texting more than the norm.

There are sooo many apps out there to monitor phone usage, right now I'm only going to highlight three, one for each platform. (Blackberry, Android and iPhone)


Cell Manager

Cell Manager is a complete BlackBerry® Usage Monitoring, Reporting, and Analytics app to help you control costs. Block any unwanted calls! Track billable time from work for auditing! Track your daytime, evening, weekend and long distance minutes conveniently from your BlackBerry® at no cost. Track your data usage against your data plan and your incoming, outgoing and long distance text messages against your messaging plan. You will now be alerted when you are close to exceeding your wireless plan and incurring additional fees. You will now be able to track to the dollar every additional fee to prevent surprising, outrageous wireless bills at the end of your billing period.  Screenshot below.

Droid Stats

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Watch your call, sms and data limits, save costs and get interesting stats. This apps gives you the ability to control your call minutes, number of sms messages and data traffic. You can set limits for each, track your costs and get much more informations and statistics about your calls, sms and traffic. You can also check these informations in different nice widgets.  Below is a screenshot of Droid Stats.

DataMan

Your weapon against data overage charges. Real-time tracking of your data usage helps you stay within your data plan. And with customizable threshold alerts, you're warned before you hit your data cap.

Precise and Current. DataMan gets the latest usage statistics directly from iOS, so no more outdated reports and delayed usage alerts from your carrier.  Below is a screenshot regarding over-usage (is this even a word??)