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Google Call Screen is Reason Enough to Buy Pixel Phones

Kellen June 24, 2021 37

The number of articles we've written about how all the US carriers have adopted some level of spam and robocall support is no small amount. There was a moment in time a couple of years ago where all of them were proud to introduce a feature that would help...

Time to Setup Google’s New Automatic Call Screening on Your Pixel

Kellen December 11, 2019

With the first "Pixel feature drop" this week, one of the big new features set to arrive on Google's Pixel line is a part of Call Screen. Google has taken their previous Call Screen idea and applied a couple of new highly useful options that will let your...

Pixel Phones are Getting a Bunch of New Features

Kellen December 9, 2019

Google announced that its Pixel phones are getting the first ever "Pixel feature drop" this week, which is mostly Google saying that a batch of new features are coming to your phone. The first "feature drop" brings new features to the Pixel 4, Pixel 3, Pixel...

Google’s Phone App May Soon Offer Automatic Spam Call Screening

Tim November 19, 2019

Thanks to the power of technology, many times when you receive a spam call on your smartphone, it's labeled as such on your device when ringing. Instead of wasting your time in answering the call, you can simply decline it. However, according to code dug up in...

Call Screen is Great, but Google Should Make It Easier to Search Phone Numbers of Incoming Calls

Kellen November 5, 2019

Google's Call Screen is one of my favorite new software features of the past couple of years. I probably get far too much pleasure out of sending spam bots there as a means of retaliation for messing with my day and wasting the world's time. But here's the...

Call Screen, One of the Best Pixel Features, is Coming to Motorola Phones

Kellen April 4, 2019

The Call Screen feature that Google introduced alongside the Pixel 3 is one of the best pieces of technology they've introduced in a while. It gives you the power to troll-back to the numerous robo and spam calls that hit you each day, but it is also a handy...

Pixel and Pixel XL Pick-Up Google Call Screen Feature

Kellen December 8, 2018

Google's Call Screen feature, the new robo-call troll software that was introduced with the Pixel 3, is now rolling out to the original Pixel and Pixel XL. To recap, Call Screen allows you to use the Google Assistant to screen incoming calls. With a call on...

Pixel’s Call Screen Transcripts Appear to be Rolling Out

Tim December 3, 2018

Over the weekend, Google Pixel-owning users on reddit showed that they were seeing access to transcripts for Call Screen, the Google Assistant-powered call screening service. Accessible via Recent calls > Call Details > See transcript, this will allow...