Android will warn of phone calls from telemarketers – GSM Helpdesk Netherlands

The new version of the Android Phone App, the application is responsible for the telephone traffic on Android smartphones, includes spam prevention. The app now displays a warning if the phone number from which a call is known as a phone number of a telemarketing agency. That way, users beforehand the possibility not to include.

Spampreventie Android Phone App

Although it leads to major irritations, telemarketing still proves lucrative to be enough to call thousands of people a night from call centers to try to sell products or services. In the Netherlands, telemarketing restricted and people can opt out of telemarketing through the call-me-not register. In many other countries, these options do not exist.

Spam Prevention

Android Phone App gives quite some time additional information about phone numbers, even when not in the phone book of the smartphone user state. For example, the app from which country or place a phone call comes and is now also able to give warning that the incoming call is available from a telemarketing agency and thus is spam.

via Android Phone App users can also declare themselves certain phone numbers must be marked as spam. This information is shared with Google. When several people classify a phone number as spam Google will also warn other users of phone calls from this number. Of course, it is also possible to indicate that numbers are marked as spam correctly are not spam. If enough users do this, the spam tag expires again.

Nexus and Android One

The new Android Phone App is currently only available for Nexus smartphones Google and all the Android One smartphones. These devices run on an original and unmodified version of Android and have the original Android Phone App. In many other Android smartphones smartphone manufacturers put property or customized versions of the Android Phone App.

For now, the spam prevention seems to be the Android Phone App to focus on US users, though it is Google a breeze to make available the functionality worldwide. The Netherlands will work out really well this function since most telemarketing firms anonymous call or attaching any number. Many Dutch people do not take their phone when it is called anonymous because in nine cases out of ten then this is a telemarketing agency.