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Pixel Phones Get New Scam Detection in Their Phone App

Kellen November 13, 2024 5

Because scammers love to call and impersonate places like your bank, Google is introducing a new Scam Detection feature for its Pixel phones that is a part of the Phone by Google app. The idea behind Scam Detection is to, well, detect scams in real-time using...

New “Premium” Galaxy Watch Models, T-Mobile Old Plan Price Hikes, New Mobvoi Watch

Kellen May 1, 2024 1

In the world of tech news, we've always got time for teases from Samsung when it involves new premium Galaxy Watch devices. Our eyebrows will also never stop raising whenever a carrier talks about older plans and how they might optimize pricing on them. Last,...

Google Phone Gets Audio Emoji Feature

Kellen April 30, 2024 9

Google can't find time to add RCS support to Google Voice, but you know what they can find time for? Adding poop sounds to your phone calls. Rolling out today to the Google Phone app, you can take the misery of a phone call up 7 notches with new Audio Emoji....

Google Pixel’s Phone App Might Get Easy “Lookup” Number Feature

Kellen April 5, 2024 8

How many times recently has a phone call hit your device and you ignore it, only to then immediately Google Search the number to see if it was important or something you should have answered? I do it daily. The process, though, for making that happen, could be...

Google Phone update adds Material You Colors

Google Phone’s Material You Look Gets Even Cuter

Kellen April 11, 2022 9

Not that any of us place actual phone calls anymore, but if you happen to on a phone running Android 12+ and with the Google Phone app, you should see an even cuter Material You look after a fresh update. A new build started rolling out last week that makes...

Automatically Record Calls From Unknown Numbers With Google’s Phone App

Tim April 9, 2021 10

Code from a Phone app update detailed this past January pointed to the upcoming ability to automatically record calls from phone numbers not saved in your contacts. Well, that feature is apparently very real and rolling out to users of Google's dedicated Phone...

Google Phone Prepares to Record Calls From Non-Contacts

Kellen January 8, 2021 6

The Google Phone is one of Google's apps that you can point as having received regular and worthwhile features over the past couple of years. It constantly picks up new items that have helped stop spam calls, added Assistant to screen calls from strange...

Google Phone App Now Verifies Calls and It’s Coming to More Devices

Kellen September 8, 2020 7

Google is well aware that none of us like to answer our phones when a call is incoming. We don't because we assume most are spam or scam calls that the dialer hasn't quite picked up on, so we send them to voicemail or hang-up. Not every call is spam, though,...