At TmoNews we strive our best to bring our readers the best and newest features available around the web. That is why last time we featured YouMail, and today we are featuring SkyDeck. SkyDeck is a unique service, that provides something that mobile phone companies should have provided years ago. In one sentence, SkyDeck takes your cell phone activities (from MyT-mobile.com), puts them into their own easily navigable list, and analyzes them for you. Here you can see user specific stats:
Not only do you get slick specific stats, users will also get a SkyDeck toolbar that contains a status bar of how many minutes and texts you have used on your current billing cycle, and how many more you can use. I have been using SkyDeck for the past 3 days, and it has worked flawlessly to bring me all the stats I could dream of and more. Do you have MyFaves plan? What better way to see who should be in your Fave5 then by seeing all your contacts listed in order of how often you call them (Picture). SkyDeck also tracks texts, gives you the ability to tag them, and search them (No, you cannot read your texts online). Although they do go into your MyT-mobile account and download your bills and current usage, SkyDeck has a strict privacy policy, which is good enough for me. After talking to Jason, the CEO of SkyDeck, it sounds they are working on some great new features to add on to a service that is already on the forefront of wireless minute and text analysis. MyFaves analyzer anyone? Overall I am very impressed with everyone behind the company, and the endless (and sometimes scary) insight that they give you into your own cell phone usage. I would strongly recommend SkyDeck to anyone. Even if you are one of those lucky few that stumbled across TmoNews and don’t have T-mobile, SkyDeck supports all 4 national carriers. We completely missed the best part of the service: It is free. Head on over to SkyDeck.com to check it out.
This things cool, took a while to load everything though. Thanks im definitely using this thing now
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Seems a little creepy. I agree that the companys should have been doing this all along but I don’t care to have 3rd party access to that.
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amazing!! I wish tmobile had something like this. And to think that it is free!!! I’m blown away.
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Sorry, but I’m still skeptical about providing a company access to my account where they can add/remove services and have access to sensitive info.
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or you could just use excelsheet. tmobile lets you download your bill from the site that can be accessed from excelsheet.
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Have to agree with those who are cautious, while it may be a cool feature it is definitely risky to give a 3rd party access to your account. They may say they have a strict privacy policy but do they enforce it and how would you know? Also what happens if their systems are breached and would they even tell you, as some other companies dont tell their users till months later?
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I read a simliar post just the other day by Sandra Kosineck but yours is much better.
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I’m Jason Devitt, CEO of Skydeck. Thanks for the great review!
To all those concerned about privacy, I’d like to point out that you don’t have to give us the username and password for your cell phone account. You can download a toolbar from Skydeck that stores those on your computer and just relays your call records to us.
Please bear in mind that we have nothing to gain and everything to lose by abusing the trust that customers place in us. We’re building a whole set of services to help you get more value out of your cell phone, and hope to have you all as customers in the future. In case you’re wondering how Skydeck will make money, we plan to charge for some of the features that we’re launching later this year.
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Thanks Jason,
I just downloaded Skydeck, and I’m loving it so far!
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I’ll second that. I also just downloaded the service and am very impressed. In case you do come back here to read this and don’t have this planned for later, I think a great addition to the service would be setting up alerts to be sent via text or email to a customer when they reach certain defined plateaus in minute usage to help avoid overages for people that don’t remember to come check your site.
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Hey jimbo831, tmobile came out with something sort of like that. Maybe you have heard of it already but its called family allowence. And you can set your limits as to how many minutes you want to use….but no text message is sent notifying you. Thought I would let you know incase you didn’t.
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I’d rather have this info web based than have to install software to use it. I may download it and try it out at home.
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I like it so far, working great, but am wondering is there some sort of support for a family plan? I (or try to, at least) keep track of 5 lines, all on MyFaves. So I waste a lot of time checking to see that each line is utilizing their top 5 Faves properly.
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totally enjoyed finding your blog, unbelievable work!
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