I Love BlackBerry App Review - Find out your Daily, Weekly and Monthly Blackberry Usage

Article by kkndka (6,594 pts ) , published Sep 22, 2009

Ever wanted to know how many hours in a day, week or month you spend using your Blackberry? I Love BlackBerry will help you find out your daily, weekly and monthly usage.

Introduction

Are you addicted to your Blackberry? Do you spend hours on end on your phone checking emails and texting? You can find out your usage statistics using I Love Blackberry. It is an appropriately titled application that allows you to check your daily, weekly and monthly usage and will answer your question "How Much Do I Love your Blackberry" . The app is currently in its beta stages and the developer encourages users to send in their problems with the application.

Overview

EarlySail-Blackberry-Addict-Usage-AveragesTo get started with using the application you need to grant it access to your phone api. You can install the application via an OTA link or through a desktop install. You then need to set your work days from the application for it to report accurate statistics of your weekly usage.

The application initially extrapolates your first few days of use to get data for your average daily, monthly and weekly usage. The app also has a slick interface which makes adequate use of the space provided on the screen and shows you what you really want to view.

The application counts only your active time on the phone. You can set an idle period in the application, the default is 60 seconds after which it stops counting your usage.

Button presses and phone calls are also counted as part of your active time. The application auto updates itself whenever you have a working data connection. While the average usage allows you to get a clear view on how much time you spend on your phone. The app even displays your usage in hours, minutes and seconds.

Conclusion

I Love Blackberry is a bit buggy at the moment and the developer is taking feedback from users in order to release a final version.

The app also allows you to send your usage stats to an email of your choice with full control over the message contents. Overall the app is fun and allows you to get a grip on your phone usage.

People who find themselves lacking time for more imporant things in life may find their Blackberry usage taking up a lot of their time.

You can download this freeware application from here.

 
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