Huawei flagships (starting with Honor 8) to come preloaded with Truecaller dialer app

27 August, 2016
Swedish company Truecaller has partnered with China's Huawei to bring its popular smart dialer/caller ID app to the latter's flagship smartphones, including the Honor 8 which has just been launched in the US and many other regions around the world.

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  • AnonD-237381
  • 8UF
  • 31 Aug 2016

mir, 27 Aug 2016Just more bloat that most of the users will never use in th... moreI find it very useful, since where I live and many other countries dual-SIM phones are very popular, Truecaller identifies unknown numbers, notifies when the number is spam, you can mark numbers as spam too, block numbers and it also identifies the carrier, so you know what SIM to use to save money since calls to the same carrier are way cheaper.

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    • AnonD-322352
    • KZJ
    • 28 Aug 2016

    Anonym, 28 Aug 2016I must say that, within the "suckiness" of this kind of sel... moreHmm I'm not sure about that actually. I got the screenshot from a reddit thread.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4zolhl/huawei_phones_to_come_with_truecaller/d6xhyjp

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      • Anonym
      • Lcd
      • 28 Aug 2016

      AnonD-322352, 27 Aug 2016The same reason why Samsung chose to pre-install bloats on ... moreI must say that, within the "suckiness" of this kind of sell-out, showing that menu during the first boot (assuming full control over all this apps) would be the lesser of all evils.

      Is the default set to install?

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        • AnonD-10909
        • IaR
        • 27 Aug 2016

        I dont know what the fuss is l about. Truecaller came with CyanogenOS and was perfect. Better than their app on the playstore.

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          • AnonD-322352
          • KZ8
          • 27 Aug 2016

          Anonym, 27 Aug 2016Cheap phones require maintenance, premium devices should ju... moreThe same reason why Samsung chose to pre-install bloats on their $850 flagship; to make money. Unlike Samsung, though, Honor allows you to choose apps that come with your phone.

          https://s16.postimg.org/3p5y45991/removebloat.png

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            • Anonymous
            • PA7
            • 27 Aug 2016

            Anonym, 27 Aug 2016Thanks, but no. Last thing I want is to upload my contact l... moreYeah, they basically have dug their own graves. But fortunately for them, only a few customer is aware of this...

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              • Anonym
              • Lcd
              • 27 Aug 2016

              AnonD-322352, 27 Aug 2016It's uninstallable...Cheap phones require maintenance, premium devices should just work.
              With the current Huawei's pricing of their flagships, I really don't see why they would require to resort to this sort of revenue generating ploys.

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                • mir
                • t7X
                • 27 Aug 2016

                Just more bloat that most of the users will never use in the phone's lifetime.

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                  • AnonD-322352
                  • KZ8
                  • 27 Aug 2016

                  Anonym, 27 Aug 2016Thanks, but no. Last thing I want is to upload my contact l... moreIt's uninstallable...

                    Now it's common to bundled something into products~

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                      • Anonym
                      • Lcd
                      • 27 Aug 2016

                      Thanks, but no. Last thing I want is to upload my contact list (and possibly call log) to some obscure 3rd-party servers that may do what they please with my data.

                      You call this a flagship-worthy feature? It's actually better suited to cheap Chinese phones that need to subsidize the price by whatever means necessary! NO BUY.

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                        • AnonD-525706
                        • vGA
                        • 27 Aug 2016

                        AnonD-20964, 27 Aug 2016i was tempted to use truecaller but not after i read about ... moreOr, you could use a different dialler app!

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                          • AnonD-20964
                          • AW7
                          • 27 Aug 2016

                          i was tempted to use truecaller but not after i read about it uploading your entire contact list to a searchable database once the app is installed so ill give huawei phones a miss from now on

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