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| Most importantly, PhoneTell curates a 300 million-entry database of business and personal contact records. This includes phone numbers that are listed, unlisted, or “hidden” (like some companies’ customer support numbers). If a call comes in and the name of the caller doesn’t register, PhoneTell can run a reverse lookup in its database to find out who’s calling you. Go to article > View PDF > |
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Phonetell taps into your phone’s contacts (currently Android) as well as publicly available numbers to create an all in one dialer and phone number search engine. But the cool part is scraping coveted but hard to find numbers. Go to article > View the video > View PDF > |
| When it comes to usefulness, this app is definitely worth the space it takes on your phone’s storage. Plus, you can’t argue with the price: Free. Go to article > View PDF > |
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A clever, smart Android application for communication. It’s great. Go to article > View PDF > |
| PhoneTell aims to improve the mobile phone experience by allowing users to manage inbound calls, and search for and discover any number. The mobile app helps identify callers even if they’re not in your phone book by tapping into a directory of over 200 million contacts. Go to article > View PDF > |
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You might think of Yelp or some other app on your iPhone, but PhoneTell has a better idea: let you search for local businesses and things using a search engine that helps you connect precisely who you are looking for much faster. PhoneTell has more. Watch the video > |
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No more hassles to find the customer service number for Amazon.com, Apple, Paypal, Toyota, MasterCard or Dell: PhoneTell promises to provides the precise phone number to reach a real live person to help you. Go to article > En Français > View PDF > |
| PhoneTell is adding hundreds of difficult to find customer service numbers to its free call-management app for Android. Go to article > View PDF > |
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“La aplicación nos permitirá conocer la ubicación de quien nos está llamando, o enviar un SMS a la otra persona si decidiéramos no atender la llamada. Incluso podremos especificar un SMS predeterminado para enviar a aquellos que no atendemos, con las disculpas del caso. También podremos crear mensajes de voz para indicar cuando estamos ocupados y no podemos atender la llamada, o establecer recordatorios que no permitan que olvidemos devolver una determinada llamada.” Go to article > View PDF > |
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“Enter PhoneTell, a new Android app that displays much more information about the caller if it’s available, including their phone number and the location from which they are calling.” |
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“…the application is not just for displaying callers’ information; with a click you can send the caller a short SMS if you decline their call which lets them know you’re busy. PhoneTell can even remind you to return the call.” |
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“The enhanced caller ID functionality is only one of PhoneTell’s biggest features. Additionally, the app allows you to acknowledge and respond to a caller without having to take their call. For example, if you’re on a conference call at your desk and your mobile phone rings, you can tap PhoneTell and tell it to reply “Busy. I’ll call you back,” and even add the call-back as an appointment on your phone’s calendar.” |
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“PhoneTell–a productivity-enhancing app that helps the User better find and manage the mobile connections most important to them.” |
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“PhoneTell’s free app covers both ends of the spectrum, helping you manage calls and contacts. See the contact details of an incoming call and choose to send a default or custom text if you have to decline it. This Android app has reminders for return calls and a search tool that goes beyond the numbers saved in your phone.” |
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PhoneTell voted #2 best new Android app! Here’s the whole session of the SF App Pitch at which Steve Larsen spoke. PhoneTell’s part starts at timepoints 4:05 and goes to 13:05 (about 4 minutes in, going to about 13 minutes in). |
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The HTC Evo “works nicely as a phone – especially with the handy PhoneTell app to look up numbers online and tell me who’s calling even if I don’t have their number in my address book.” |
| Me? I’ll be all over it once the iPhone app is available. Probably when I get my new iPhone 4 (soon). View PDF > Also download or listen to Graeme’s interview with Steve Larsen (MP3) about PhoneTell’s plans to make your mobile life soo much easier… |
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| PhoneTell is App of the Week! (video) Note: App of the Week segment and interview starts at 42 minutes. | |
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“PhoneTell is a FREE (for end users) Android App that offers a wide variety of much needed smart phone features like call management, connection to email contacts, social networks, yellow-pages, white-pages and gigantic phone number directory of over 200 million phone numbers across the United States and Canada.” |
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“What makes the PhoneTell app so amazing is that it offers something completely new to smartphones, and this is the ability to identify calls, including those from numbers that aren’t saved to your contacts.” |
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“Enter PhoneTell, a new Android app …that outside of the fancy context it pulls from its directory of over 200 million contacts, helps us with the basics: what to do with the incoming calls we can’t take. This is indeed neat, especially the calendar part for us multi-task challenged types.” |
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“One neat trick that’s worth mentioning, is that if you decide to not answer an incoming phone call the service pops up with a dialog that lets you send that caller a text message telling them why you didn’t pick up.” |
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“The idea is that PhoneTell can become the one place where you can find the phone number you need, no matter where it is.” |
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“PhoneTell: Another Project That’ll Make Android More Awesome.” |
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“A new cloud-based application called PhoneTell was announced today that allows you to see Caller ID info from any caller in the world, even if you do not have the information stored in your contacts list.” |
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“We have probably all lamented the lack of incoming information about cell phone calls. …PhoneTell, though, changes all that.” |
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“It provides a number of use personal assistant type features such as: |
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“Most local search applications give you clickable dial links, launching the phone dialler and taking you away from your results. PhoneTell does something very different, adding a new search tab to the Android dialler. If you’re using a device with a non-standard dialler like the one HTC bundles as part of its Sense UI, you’ll be given a choice of diallers when you tap the phone icon. Searching is quick and easy. You can you can search using specific business names, or just using generic terms.” |
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“PhoneTell shows you at a glance who’s calling and let’s you respond with a click. It can remind you to return a previously ignored calls.” |
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“A new cloud-based application called PhoneTell was announced today that allows you to see Caller ID info from any caller in the world, even if you do not have the information stored in your contacts list.Along with this pretty cool feature, PhoneTell also gives you the ability to set some different response messages to incoming phone calls.” |
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“As you can see from the screenshot, you can ask the caller to call later, you can let them know that you’ll call them–and add the task to your calendar–or request that they send you a message with any important details. It’s the best possible solution to the voicemail conundrum.” |
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“One rub I’ve had with mobile phones is that they only identify callers if the person on the other end has been inputted into my address book. The PhoneTell app solves that and offers call back reminders and pre-set and customized text messages that lets certain callers know you will get back to them.” |
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“A start-up now named PhoneTell has launched a free smartphone application that gives users contact information about who is calling while letting them respond to the caller with a custom voice or SMS text message if they can’t pick up the phone.” |
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“The app is free, launched today, and it’s called Phonetell, and it’s a cloud based app that lets you manage inbound phone calls and search and discover any number you might be looking for.” |
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“Our phones don’t always ring at the most convenient time. PhoneTell is launching a new mobile app that is designed to help you manage and acknowledge calls, especially during those inconvenient moments. PhoneTell comes with a menu of pre-set text messages and lets you create your own customized text messages to respond to callers…. Perhaps one of the more unique features of PhoneTell is that it can remind you to return the call later.” |
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“Give it a try, I can honestly say it’s an app I use daily.” |




















