In Maemo 5, cellular data statistics (transmitted and received) are hidden away deep. Users must go through the following to find their usage information:
1) Open Settings from the Task Manager button.
2) Click on Phone.
3) Scroll down past the numerous phone settings.
4) Click on Data Counters button.
Seeing as the N900 is the first of the internet tablets to have a built-in cellular radio, users are going to be compelled to use a lot more data than they might have usually. In a lot of areas of the world, unlimited data plans just do not exist, opening users up to lots of potential overusage charges on top of their data plans.
The solution must be in a place that is easily accessible by the user and easily visible in places where the user tends to spend a lot of time.
Optionally, alarms could be set to allow the tablet to warn the user whenever they are within a certain percentage of the maximum data use allowed by their provider, set by the user.
Potential programmers/widget makers, you can retrieve the data for the phone's data connection through /proc/net/dev. The connection name whose data we are interested in is named phonet0 within /proc/net/dev and is accessible without root.
