Thanks to the US House of Representatives passing the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010, Caller ID spoofing will be outlawed. Sure, you may prevent your number from being seen, but no more pretending that you’re calling from another phone.
A new service dubbed TrapCall allows users to unmask pesky blocked callers—revealing not only their number, but their name and address in some cases.
Art Lebedev’s Teleport 2.0 is a great gadget: Simple, focused, functional. It’s a USB dongle that records calls to your PC, plus all of the other relevant info: Who called, when, caller ID, and phone support, among other features. The design’s perfect, too—clean and intuitive. And let’s face it, your hard drive is a much easier archive to use and catalog than a shoebox full of mini-cassettes. [Art Lebedev via The Raw Feed]
If you’re always getting weird calls from area codes you don’t recognize, Alltel’s new City ID could be just the thing you need. Available only on the LGAX275 for now (more phones later), the app will display the city and state assigned to any landline or mobile phone.
If you want this, you’ll have to fork over another $US1.99 a month, which is quite small compared to the $US27.5 billion Alltel itself just sold itself to a private group for. But if you’re not on Alltel, apparently some other phones like the Samsung Upstage also have this feature. And Treos have an optional download for it too. – Jason Chen
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