Google Does Caller ID: KitKat 4.4 Matches Numbers Against Google Places And Apps for Business, And Starting In 2014, Google Personal Accounts

As if you needed another reason to lust after the Nexus 5 and/or Android 4.4, Google just announced a huge new feature for the default Phone app in KitKat. The new version of the dialer/contacts app will match incoming numbers against Google's various databases to provide an automatic caller ID. The KitKat dialer should already match numbers against the names of businesses that have a Google Places account (usually used to manage Maps results, among other things).

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Google Does Caller ID: KitKat 4.4 Matches Numbers Against Google Places And Apps for Business, And Starting In 2014, Google Personal Accounts was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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