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Incessant calls from unknown numbers are frustrating and can at times be immensely distracting, which is why companies like Facebook and Google have as of late introduced new Android dialers with which they hope quash this problem. Both essentially crawl their respective social network and search databases for the number calling you to try to find a name or business match. In Facebook's case, it allows you to "block" individual numbers which really just sends calls from unwanted callers straight to voicemail.

Cyanogen, the popular Android OS based on an AOSP build of Google's operating system, today announced a feature to help combat spam calls. Truecaller is a caller ID service and soon it will be part of the Cyanogen OS dialer.

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