This integration allows for Hangouts-based calls to be routed through your iPhone's native dialer app — which has access to your lock screen.
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Viber indefinitely makes calls from the US to Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen free
Viber's mission is to "connect people" regardless of their origin and religion, with free calls now offered from the US to seven Muslim majority countries.
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Facebook Messenger Group Calling is a free challenger to Skype
10 ways Blackphone keeps you secure
Some have referred to Blackphone as a smartphone for people who are “paranoid”, I don’t see it that way. Blackphone offers something that, as a society, we give away too freely: our privacy.Many will say “if you don’t have anything to hide, you don’t have anything to worry about”, yet these people still close the door on the stall when using the restroom, and have curtains over their windows to keep people from snooping. That’s what Blackphone does, only for your personal communications. How it ...
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Wi-Fi calling should come standard on all smartphones
I’m sitting in my grandmother’s house in my hometown, and I want to make a call. I pick up my phone, dial a number, and hit the giant red Call button. It fails. I remember T-Mobile has literally no service in Pinnacle, North Carolina, so I connect to her Wi-Fi network. “I can use Wi-Fi calling,” I think. Nope. The Moto X doesn’t support Wi-Fi calling. People, this is 2014. This should not happen. I have a perfectly good Wi-Fi network and a perfectly capable smartphone in an area with no service, and I still have no way to place a call, unless I pick up the ...
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Voice and text should (optionally) fall-back to WiFi networks whenever possible
Technology sites like Pocketnow often focus on carrier coverage and wireless technologies made available through the cellular towers that dot our landscape. We are constantly bombarded with acronyms: EDGE, GMRS, HSPA, Wi-Max, LTE, CDMA, GSM, and so on. That’s all fine and good, but one technology we often overlook is WiFi. More often that we’d like to admit our “traditional” cellular coverage (voice and text) isn’t ideal, but that’s something that could be remedied through data networks. Local-area wireless networks have some distinct advantages over ...
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Carriers are scared of data-only plans
Take a look at that phone in your pocket. Chances are it’s got a multi-core processor, a gig or more of RAM, dozens of gigs of storage space, and a connection to the Internet that is pretty snappy. By any definition, it’s a computer. I’m sorry if that makes you feel like a geek, but hey, if the smartphone case fits… Now take a look at the bill that your wireless carrier sends you every month. See how they nickel and dime you for everything? They monitor your minutes, they count your texts, and they even keep tabs on how many megabytes you use each month. Even on an ...
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