Sales Calls, Spam Calls, Pranks, etc; we all want to avoid them. Development in technology has pushed this thing further. Now it is quite easy for anyone to make a call from internet. It is widely used by marketing firms. They make constant call to provide information on services which we might never need. This are Spam Calls. They consumes our time and also irritates whenever you are busy in something. Till date our telecom providers have no effective solution. They are running a DND service where you have to list your phone number in the Do Not Call list. But it is not 100% effective. What if you have a smart app that can give you information of a phone number before picking it up? We are always curious about an unknown number. Many of us think this can be something important and when we pick it then we find it as a spam call. Here we have a trusted application called Truecaller which is somewhat like a CallerID. A global phone directory which has listing of almost all Spam numbers. Once this app is active in your phone it will tell you whether the call you are receiving is a spam call or not. Truecaller works well in various countries. But being a private firm people have choices to remove their numbers from it. Second thing is that different countries follow different rules of privacy. This restricts the output of Truecaller. Still I am able to get satisfactory results from it.
Truecaller comes in two versions. First is free and second is Premium. The free version gives you name and location of phone number. You can also share that on social network websites. The premium edition comes with more benefits. It is ads free, shows you info on who has viewed your profile and 30 contact request.
Features:
- Global Verified Telephone Directory
- Effective Caller ID
- Social Media Integration
- Call Blocking Functionality
- Available on various mobile platform
- Reverse Number Lookup
UI and Usage:
Truecaller is a lightweight app. It is more comfortable to use on Android. But if you are using it on Symbian then your phone might work slowly. I had faced a bit issue on Nokia E71 long back when I was using Truecaller. You need an active internet connection on your device to get information. This app works actively in the background and when you receive a call it gives you a popup message on the screen. If the number is not listed you won’t get any info. You can mark a phone number as spam which is updated in Truecaller database. The app once installed will upload your Phone book on its database. This is further used in the verification process. This does not mean that your phone numbers are leaked. They are being used for more effective verification. Truecaller mostly gets data verified through people. It has more than 10million users around the globe. It has become one of the largest mobile phone communities.
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