Six applications to identify calls from hidden numbers
Six applications to identify calls from
hidden numbers Applications for smartphones allow find out who is calling from
unknown numbers. They promise not only identify but show who called profile
phones
"Number unidentified" or
"private call". It is the second time a message like this appears on
your phone's screen, which vibrates incessantly, and probably not the last. You
think, "it sure is spam". But what if not? And if it's urgent? And if
you want to answer?
Many of restricted or unidentified numbers calls come from telemarketers trying to sell products that do not ask.
But they can also be called companies that
seem to come from abroad. Or someone up whose phone number is not saved in your
phonebook.
Occasionally, you end up meeting and the
connection is spam.
To prevent this from happening, you can
use applications that identify unknown numbers. The BBC World selected six of
them, four of the Android system and two that are also available for iOS.
1. TrapCall
This application is available for Android
and iOS. It was developed by the American company Tel Tech, New Jersey, United
States. The service costs $ 5 a month.
It works as follows: when receiving a
unknown number of call, you can reject it by pressing twice a lock button. Then
the app sends a text message to the phone the caller and if it is linked to a
specific address.
The application also offers the option of
including unwanted numbers on a blacklist.
"It was not designed to spy or to
fanatics in technology," said the president of TelTech, Meir Cohen, the
application launch. "Everybody Hates calls from hidden numbers. Everyone
wants to have the option to know who is calling and have the option to answer
or not. "
2. True Caller
Its developer, the Swedish company True
Software Scandinavia AB, says the app has over 85 million users worldwide.
It is available for iOS, Android,
BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone, among others. You can also use the service through
its website.
It works with a database of millions of
previously identified numbers. Once you recognize them, the application allows
them to be blocked. The program also research on the internet information
related to the caller.
3. Contative
This free app was designed by the Spanish
Iñaki Berenguer, who in 2013 founded the startup Klink - who recently bought
the British company ThinkingPhones.
It serves to identify unknown numbers and
its developers say it can reveal more than 600 million numbers.
What it does is automate and streamline a
quest that any user could do, but it would take time.
Anyone could get a phone number on the
Internet and possibly find a name linked to it. The name would be possible to
seek more information on Facebook, LinkeIn, or Wikipedia. The Contactive do it
in seconds.
4. Track Caller Location
Created by the developer of Smart logic
software, based in the United States and the United Kingdom, this app can be
downloaded for free from October last year.
To use it is not necessary to be connected
to the internet. In addition to having the same functions of the above
applications, the Track Caller Location allows you to discover the location of
the caller, since his phone use GSM.
5. Whoscall
The company that developed the Gogolook,
Taiwan, says the free app filters 20 million calls a day and identifies half a
million of them as troublesome or dishonest.
Likewise the Contactive the Whoscall
identifies the links from a database 600 million numbers, the company.
Once identified unwanted numbers, the app
allows you to block their calls and text messages.
6. Who's Calling?
The BadAix developer's application is
similar to the list above, Whoscall.
However, he is able to detect who is
behind a text WhatsApp, even when the user is not identified by name in the
service of electronic messages.
It also allows us to recognize the origin
of the texts sent by the Messenger of social network Facebook and offers the
ability to configure smartphones to to filter the calls on the basis of
contacts.
With these applications you can set up
your own blacklist of phone numbers unwanted and thus avoid a hassle.
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