What LCMinutes Is About

Basically LCMinutes is an application that keeps track of phone calls and text messages (SMS), calculates their charge based on user defined rate plan, and thus keep user informed of the up-to-date balance information: like current charges, used free minutes, used free messages, expire date for prepaid plans, etc.

Main features:

• Monitoring all phone call and text messages: all incoming and outgoing calls and messages are traced;

• Calculating every phone call or text message charge: depend on rate plan, this could mean real charge,  reduction of free minutes or free messages, or nothing;

• Support time based monthly charge and daily surcharge, and reset of counter for free minutes and free messages;

• Support user manually adjusting of balance, expire date;

• Provide today plugin for easy checking of balance;

• Support very flexible rate plan: prepaid or not, different rates for weekday, weekend, evening, different rate for starting minutes every day, different rates for incoming and outgoing messages, etc;

• Support importing existing phone call logs and text messages;

• Support deleting single call/message/balance record and deleting all the records.

Features to be implemented:

• Data plan & MMS charge support;

• Free number support: like free service number, like myFaves feature of T-Mobile, etc;

• Roaming charges;

• International long distance.

• Making notes for any phone call, message, and balance record.

Installation

To try LCMinutes:

1. Click the Download LCMinutes link at the right sidebar to download it;

2. After download, copy it to the target pocket pc phone and click the downloaded file to install it;

3. After installation, reboot the phone;

4. After phone is rebooted, the LCMinutes today plugin should be displayed on the today screen, click on it to start LCMinutes main application;

5. Choose Menu -> Setting to setup the rate plan;

6. Choose Balance setting to setup an initial balance;

7. Done.

Screenshots

Check the slideshow below to see how it looks like.

 

Disclaimer

This application is provided as a free tool to monitor phone plan balance. It's just for reference. There's no guarantee that the calculated charges are accurate, and they should not be used to dispute the service charge by operator.

And while this application runs fine in my own htc TyTN, there's no guarantee that it will run well in any other Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC Phone. Please use it at your own risk. No responsibility will be taken for any damages caused by using this application.