Gaia/System/ConsumptionControl

Consumption control gives the user the ability to monitor and configure their devices usage of telephony services.

Status & Team

• See: B2G - Milestone 3 Plan

Requirements

v1

Consumption controls

• User can turn mobile data usage ON/OFF

Consumption/Cost monitoring

• A additional component of the utility tray that enables the user to monitor pre-paid credit and usage.
  • User can monitor remaining credit
  • Easily quantify credit in real-world usage
    • $[x] credit remaining
      • [x] messages
      • [x] email
      • [x] hours browsing
        • (? this is going to be a difficult one to quantify. mb remaining would make more sense, though i dont think your average user understands this value)

v2

• Consumption monitoring

• • Telephony & Messaging
    • User can track incoming and outgoing voice minutes
    • User can track incoming and outgoing sms and mms messages
  • User can adjust warning thresholds for consumption limits
  • User can set reset for consumption limits manually or on a scheduled basis

• Data
  • User can restrict heavy-bandwidth interactions (eg: app updates) to specific pre-conditions (eg: "update only when connected to WiFi")

• • User can quickly adjust connectivity settings
  • User can track data consumption totals (eg: Android's Settings > Data Usage feature)
  • User can track data consumption (both total, and per-app)
  • User can limit data consumption (both total, and per app)
  • User can be warned when close to the limits
  • User can be given data consumption options (eg: purchase more minutes via link to carrier site, etc)

Application Controls

Service usage may be further adjusted by in-application settings.

• Wi-fi only toggles
  • restrict applications data usage to wifi only
• User initiated usage
  • Press to load from server
  • Press to Download