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I'm surprised this doesn't get mentioned higher. On the Pixel you can screen a call with text to speech and reject any spam calls. Most robo-dialers are smart e
by notjustanymike 5y ago
I'm surprised this doesn't get mentioned higher. On the Pixel you can screen a call with text to speech and reject any spam calls. Most robo-dialers are smart enough to understand you're doing this and hang up automatically. It's win-win.
- hammock 5y agoYes and that's not even what I'm talking about. I'm referring to when a call comes in the phone has some logic that will make it show up "suspected spam call" - and spam texts it silences the notification and moves it into a spam folder.
- jjoonathan 5y agoThat's exactly what google phones do. They are far ahead on this front. I bought an iPhone this time around because I wanted to play with lidar and because google defaulted hard on the "free picture storage" promise. There's a lot to like about the iPhone, but anti-spam is a glaring exception. Holy shit, I assumed that Apple would at least have made an effort, even if wasn't their core expertise and the result wasn't quite as good as google's, but it's like they didn't even try. Meanwhile google put this into production years ago and they have iterated and tuned it to the point that the spam problem is almost completely buttoned down.
- rootusrootus 5y agoiPhones do this but IIRC it works through coordination with the carrier, so not everyone sees it.
- jjoonathan 5y agoWhich carriers work? I'm on AT&T. Same SIM card I used with the Pixel. I'd be happy to meet Apple halfway on this one, I just want the spam gone.
- gergi 5y agoI have AT&T and see “suspected spam” calls on my iPhone.
- rootusrootus 5y agoI had it on T-Mobile, switched to Verizon, still have it.
- rootusrootus 5y agoMy iPhone does that.
- hammock 5y agoTeach me. I just switched to iPhone from Google and I get way more spam now (especially texts).
- jjoonathan 5y agoSame. Please, teach us.
- jlmorton 5y agoUnless I am missing something, iPhone doesn't have filtering quite like this. iPhone can filter "Unknown Senders." This is a fairly annoying feature almost as bad as the spam messages themselves. Google is applying spam filtering. Essentially all the text messages I want come through. All the text messages I don't are a silent notification. Pixel applies spam filtering on calls too. Few spam calls even make it through the spam filtering. When they do make it through, and you don't recognize the number, you can use Google Assistant to screen the call, which will provide a live transcription of what the caller is saying, all using a local on-device speech recognition system. If you want to pick up, you can do so. Otherwise, you just drop the call.
- usefulcat 5y agoAre you sure it's the phone and not the carrier?
- ta988 5y agoNot just the Pixel, I have that on a a couple other brands too.