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Facebook likely to introduce caller ID app ‘Police’ soon

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Social networking giant Facebook is expected to soon introduce a new caller ID-based application which will allow the users to know beforehand who is calling and choose whether to answer the call or not. With the app, the users can also opt for automatically blocking of the unwarranted calls.

The new application, which has been dubbed Phone, would be a new entry to Facebook’s lengthy gamut of offshoot applications that include Home, Messenger, Groups, Rooms, Slingshot and several others.

According to the reports, the caller info provided by the new app would include data that would be pulled from the vast Facebook network of friends, people and businesses.

The social networking company has, however, not officially confirmed the news and therefore there is not much info about the new app in the public domain.

But the reports suggest that the new app is likely in the internal testing phase as several users experienced that they landed on a blank page when they tapped on the Facebook Phone link.

Currently, calling capabilities are available on Facebook Messenger. And the feature is about to be brought on the platform of Facebook-owned WhatsApp too.

Google’s ‘on-body detection’ keeps Android phone unlocked

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androidFinally it is time to get rid of hazels of unlocking the phone several times when the user is operating the phone. Google is soon coming up with the new Android feature known as ‘on-body detection’ for its smartphones.

This new feature will make sure that once if the phone is unlock then it will stay unlock until the owner is holding the phone or keep it in pocket but once the phone is not within the user’s reach then it will get locked and so the user need to unlock it again to operate it and this is solving the problem of unlocking the phone several times.

How it works? Most of the cell phones have accelerometer fitted within it, so the lock feature can feel when the gadget is in the grasp and when it isn’t by figuring out whether the phone is consistently in move.

Android police who gave the detailed report on this new feature added that the motive behind the phone getting locked once it is out of reach of the user is to save the data from potential threat and to maintain privacy and security of data. If the phone is left somewhere then the phone gets locked and no other user can check on it.

But if the phone is handed over to other person when the phone is unlocked then the phone will not get locked because the phone cannot sense users touch or which pocket it is in.

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