Not that long ago users did not care much about the amounts of mobile traffic, but since the iPhone was first released, constant communication with the network has become the norm. Smartphones based on the Android, as the iPhone, constantly access the network (for a reason or without one), if you keep automatic updates of various widgets and programs, as well as automatic synchronisation of your personal data enabled. Because of this, it would be useful to know how much traffic gets transmitted to and from the device, so you don’t get a nasty surprise from your mobile carrier at the end of the month (this is especially true if you are on a smaller data cap). There are many programs to monitor the traffic available for Android, but I liked the Data Counter.

The application allows for the data update time to be configured by a user (e.g. 1, 2, 5 minutes, etc.) and displays detailed statistics for a period of time (e.g. day, week, month). On the screen the program is displayed as a widget, a small gray window (about 1/8 of the screen), which shows the amounts of incoming and outgoing traffic for GSM / UMTS networks and for Wi-Fi.

If you click on the widget, a window with detailed statistics of data transferred over various periods of time will open. Here you can see what data volumes have been transferred and received within a day, week, month, or since the installation of the application. By the way, on top of showing the data transmission volumes for GSM / UMTS and Wi-Fi, the detailed statistics window shows the amount of data received via Bluetooth (not that relevant for Android 2.0).

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