Never for get your prepaid balance again with Prepay Widget

For some users, monitoring minutes and messages is not an issue. Unlimited plans are in, and with prepaid they can save you a lot of money. But not every prepaid plan includes unlimited minutes and messages. Virgin Mobile, which we covered along with the Motorola Triumph, has limits on its most attractive service plan. Other carriers, too, offer Android handsets with metered plans. Many carriers — and soon it’s likely to be more of them — offer limited data, too. Thankfully for prepaid users, a new widget lets you keep close track of your usage habits. Via the xda blog comes the Prepay Widget. It’s one of those useful apps that does exactly what the name implies. It takes advantage of certain commands to retrieve relevant information, and then puts that information front and center, so you always know how many minutes and messages, and how much data you have left in your billing cycle. Because it’s a widget, you can’t even forget to check the app. It’s always there, taking up just a row on your home screen.

The basic app is free, so you can head to the Market and download Prepay Widget. If you want to support the developer, you can spring the $1.48 to buy Prepay Widget Pro. The premium version does add automatic updates. And from the sound of their description, I’d say that this app will get decently frequent updates.