Friday, February 18, 2011

How to filter or block incoming calls

How to filter or block incoming calls


"Unwanted calls? "SMS Advertising? Enough!


If throughout the day lose too much time fielding calls from the heavy shift some unwelcome and increasingly get more advertising messages that distract you from your daily chores, you may have time to install a filter on your mobile phone calls .


What is Call Screening? Basically, they are programs that handle incoming calls preset. That is, are dedicated to block incoming calls and taking into account parameters such as contact, or identification code of the call. In a way, is how to block a contact in the Messenger, but at the telephone.


In Softonic.com you can find many programs that are responsible for doing this. The most complete are Advanced Call Manager and Best BlackList, two programs that, although somewhat different, they share a common goal: screen calls and messages.


On the one hand, Advanced Call Manager you can screen calls using different rules. Allows you to block all calls to block only the contacts defined on a blacklist, block all calls from unknown numbers and all their opposites.


Furthermore, Best BlackList uses groups of contacts from your address book to specify who you want to attend and who is not. A level is more limited functions but, consequently, it is also much simpler to use.


Both work in a completely transparent. Before the call is accepted and the phone rings, the active call filter catches the phone number and compares it to your phone book contacts or groups blocked (or allowed, depending on the selected mode). If the phone is in the list, the program locks the call and cancel any notice. Otherwise, the process normally takes incoming call.


Thanks to the speed at which this process takes place, the feeling you have a blocked contact is that your phone is busy or unreachable. In this way, you can leave to attend to a person in a more correct and somewhat elegant.


In short, today time is a precious resource and any action that we can save time is welcome. Although it is more polite to answer your calls, at times, either because it is a good time or for any other reason, it becomes a commitment for both parties. Use one of these filters is certainly an interesting solution.



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