Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani has made an undisclosed personal investment in Mubble, a smartphone app that lets users track their telecom spends and mobile data usage. As of now, the app is available only on Android in multiple Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bengali, other than English. The use the app, users first need to turn on Mubble from accessibility (the app guides a user through this step) and then makes a service call to check the user's balance. Users then need to make a call to display call information including the amount deducted per call. Similarly for data usage stats to appear, users first need to toggle the data on and off, post which the app registers usage automatically. The app also claims to support multiple SIM cards. Other than data usage and call balance, the app displays a listing of the call cost, balance and duration of each call as well as the data usage of each app. It also displays the breakdown of data usage based on automatic usage and used by the user basis. Note however, the app only counts data used over mobile networks, and will not help users looking to monitor WiFi usage. Finally, the app optionally displays call balance and data balance in the user’s notifications. The app is pretty useful, but there are a few features that would be very useful to add, for example, breakdown of data usage on various WiFi networks, displaying balance on the dialer…
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