'WhoApp' Provides Users With Detailed Unk**wn Caller Information for Free
 

A new iOS app launching today, called WhoApp, plans to provide its users with detailed information about unk**wn callers soliciting their smartphones. Created by developer TelTech, WhoApp promises to recognize calls from telemarketers, wrong numbers, and potential scammers by returning information about the unk**wn dialer's name, picture, address, and even a Google Street View image of their location.

The app works through a two-step process: when users receive an undesirable call from a number **t stored in their iPhone, they hit the decline button to send the call to WhoApp. Next, the app dials back the number to your phone with all of WhoApp's promised data points, allowing you to make a better decision about whether or **t the call needs to be answered or ig**red.

?For nearly a decade, we have focused on building in**vative privacy and security apps that help people take control of their phones, and WhoApp will be a**ther game-changer for iPhone users constantly wondering, ?Should I take that call??? said Meir Cohen, WhoApp?s CEO. ?Turning caller ID into a name, face, and even a person?s front lawn was never before possible, and will change the way we use our iPhones.?

TelTech created a similar app before, called TrapCall [Direct Link], but WhoApp **tably differs from the company's previous unk**wn caller ID creation in that it's free to download and requires ** subsequent in-app purchases or paid subscription services.

WhoApp has a few other features as well, including its own phone dialing pad that lets users look up information on a phone number to find more information about someone before hitting the dial button. TelTech also says that the app "learns and grows with every call," getting smarter with age in determining between different types of calls, from scams and telemarketers, to someone potentially important **t yet stored in your smartphone.

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Privacy and information gathering may be an issue for some users interested in WhoApp (the setup process requires access to an iPhone's address book, and it's heavily encouraged for users to connect to Facebook), but TelTech has launched a suite of call-related apps that have encouraged individual privacy. One of its previous creations, RoboKiller, won the FTC's anti-robocall competition last year, and a**ther encourages identity protection by spoofing a user's real name and number on other smartphones to ensure a**nymity.

WhoApp is currently available exclusively on the iOS App Store [Direct Link], but TelTech is additionally planning to launch the app on Android sometime this fall.

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