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A PARTNERSHIP WITH TRUECALLER IS ONE THAT WILL ACTUALLY DECREASE THE NUMBER OF SPAM CALLS RECEIVED EACH DAY.
Getting a call from an unknown person is something very common and frustrating as well. And if you are on android, so many companies have solved this mysteries years ago. Companies like Facebook and Google make a quick search online to give you details on who is calling you as your phone is ringing.But not everybody can or wants to use Facebook or Google's services. And also, this process is very long and quite difficult to use and this has been Cyanogen's mission statement for quite some time now.The company is on a quest to replace Google's grip on the core parts of Android, and thinks that users can be better-served by apps that can be updated more frequently and that play better with competing third-party services. Yet unlike some carriers and hardware makers that basically pre-install apps, Cyanogen's been building them into its own software.
The company's latest of all its efforts is a partnership with Truecaller which was announced yesterday 13th of May, 2015, a deal that will bake Truecaller's web-enabled caller ID right into phones running cyanogen OS.The feature exists not as an app, but a built-in service, and requires users to opt in before it starts working. After saying yes, it will sniff out an incoming number in less than a second and tell you who it is.
HOW IT WORKS
Cyanogen's vice president of product Dave Herman notes that the feature extends beyond identifying numbers, and was designed to keep spam at bay. Besides identifying an incoming caller, it lets people report bad numbers. So far its database includes about 1.7 billion numbers, and if it's one that people have marked as a solicitor or scammer, you'll see it in Truecaller's caller ID.
"You still see the phone number, but then you see that 635 people have marked it as a spam call, and instantly you can answer it or see whether to reject it," Herman says. "That's something that's going to bode well for emerging markets, where spam calling is very high.", he said.
"You still see the phone number, but then you see that 635 people have marked it as a spam call, and instantly you can answer it or see whether to reject it," Herman says. "That's something that's going to bode well for emerging markets, where spam calling is very high.", he said.
AND EVEN MORE OF THESE TO COME
Cyanogen is currently in the midst of another similar deal with Microsoft that it announced last month. It will bring "native integrations" of Bing, Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, and Microsoft Office into Cyanogen OS later this year. Those will join NextBit, a sync, backup, and Apple handoff-like service that Cyanogen began integrating in its phones last fall. Its key feature is letting you stop using an app on your phone, then pick up right where you left off on your tablet or another device (and vice versa).
These integrations, and this new one with Truecaller, raise the question of whether this kind of deep integration is better for users than simply installing apps from Google's store, or others like it, where they can get updated without touching other parts of a user's operating system. Google began decoupling many of its apps from Android for just this reason, since apps could get quickly outdated if people were waiting for an update from their carrier. Herman contends that Cyanogen's speed thus far should allay those fears. "We have the ability on our side to push updates frequently, like our nightly builds," he says. "People expect them daily.
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