WOW, first firewall and now a built in call blocker?
- Sooooooo, Android doesn't have this feature after all, we never asked in the first place and I certainly don't care what app you might or might not be using. Goodbye!06-07-12 01:44 AMLike 0
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Anyway, I am just wondering how good the newly discovered call blocker is and why so much excitementLast edited by kennyliu; 06-07-12 at 02:06 AM.
Heliogabalus likes this.06-07-12 02:04 AMLike 1 -
Besides, you wrote "blocking unknown numbers and creating your own list is NOT the same as blocking ALL numbers not in your Address Book," which definitely pertains to my post.06-07-12 02:13 AMLike 0 - 06-07-12 02:20 AMLike 0
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Out of curiosity, are parental control settings password protected?
If so, can your child add a contact on his/her own with parental control enabled?06-07-12 02:32 AMLike 0 - Sounds like if the child makes a contact card for that other person the call will come through, no?
If that's the case, the feature is pretty much useless.
It will be useful for blocking telemarketers, though...
Doesn't seem to work on VoIP, SMS/MMS (other than a blanket block), BBM, and IM apps, either. So I fail to see why you guys are acting like it's the second coming. You actually have children who use their phones more for talking than texting and data services? Lol.
Newsflash: Any child doing anything on a phone that you don't want them to do will do it using a data service, not something you can easily track on your phone bill or at your carrier website (or in their little app).Last edited by N8ter; 06-07-12 at 02:46 AM.
06-07-12 02:42 AMLike 0 - Sounds like if the child makes a contact card for that other person the call will come through, no?
If that's the case, the feature is pretty much useless.
It will be useful for blocking telemarketers, though...
Doesn't seem to work on VoIP, SMS/MMS (other than a blanket block), BBM, and IM apps, either. So I fail to see why you guys are acting like it's the second coming. You actually have children who use their phones more for talking than texting and data services? Lol.
Newsflash: Any child doing anything on a phone that you don't want them to do will do it using a data service, not something you can easily track on your phone bill or at your carrier website (or in their little app).
You must understand this is protection against strangers, perverts or bullies that could otherwise contact your kid.06-07-12 02:49 AMLike 0 - I love how almost everything is made into a competition and argument around here.pantlesspenguin likes this.06-07-12 02:53 AMLike 1
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Dude, seriously let it go. This thread has nothing to do with Android, no need to bring it up. By the way, i just picked up a Galaxy Nexus which is a pure Android device and it doesn't have that feature. I use Google Voice, which has this feature but not everyone uses google voice. You have an HTC device so HTC or any other OEM that skins android can and does add its own features so you can't just say "android has this feature" because you can't be sure if it was added by HTC or part of pure android.pantlesspenguin likes this.06-08-12 10:18 AMLike 1 - This is actually one of my pet peeves of Android. When I got a Samsung phone after over a year of using high end HTC devices, I realized that most of the features I enjoyed were actually baked into Sense and not pure Android. It was a disappointment, because I WANT to like Sammy devices. I need to start preparing myself for the BB10 learning curve, lol.06-08-12 11:09 AMLike 0
- Android is also a data sieve. So enjoy the overage charges on your android data plan since all of the vendors are going away from unlimited data. That is why they are giving them away
Last edited by dbollman423; 06-08-12 at 11:27 AM.
06-08-12 11:25 AMLike 0 - @kennyliu
Dude, seriously let it go. This thread has nothing to do with Android, no need to bring it up. By the way, i just picked up a Galaxy Nexus which is a pure Android device and it doesn't have that feature. I use Google Voice, which has this feature but not everyone uses google voice. You have an HTC device so HTC or any other OEM that skins android can and does add its own features so you can't just say "android has this feature" because you can't be sure if it was added by HTC or part of pure android.
In any case, I was not responding to the OP per se, but rather to the poster who said that call blocking is "something quite advanced". I used to use call blocking on my first Symbian phone aeons ago.06-08-12 01:44 PMLike 0 - WOW!!!! So the latest Android OS now has something that was part of Symbian eons ago?!? WOW!!!! Shame it's taken Android so long!!!!!
Heehee
Sorry, couldn't resist,,,,, Peace. Cheers.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalkpantlesspenguin likes this.06-08-12 04:17 PMLike 1 - OMG, can we stop talking about Android now? Who the f***k cares?
I am just happy BlackBerry has this feature now out of the box.06-08-12 04:46 PMLike 0
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