Google’s Phone app will soon let you look up unknown numbers

You have a missed call, but it’s not from one of your contacts, just a random number. Before deciding whether to call back, wouldn’t you want to know exactly who called? That’s the idea behind services like Truecaller, and now Google seems to be wanting to join the ‘unknown number lookup’ game inside its Phone app.

An option to do just that, labeled as “Lookup” under numbers from your call log that aren’t in your contacts, has been spotted in the Google Phone app beta version 127.0.620688474.

When you tap on “Lookup”, you get a list of apps on your device that can handle the ‘Web…

​ You have a missed call, but it’s not from one of your contacts, just a random number. Before deciding whether to call back, wouldn’t you want to know exactly who called? That’s the idea behind services like Truecaller, and now Google seems to be wanting to join the ‘unknown number lookup’ game inside its Phone app.

An option to do just that, labeled as “Lookup” under numbers from your call log that aren’t in your contacts, has been spotted in the Google Phone app beta version 127.0.620688474.

When you tap on “Lookup”, you get a list of apps on your device that can handle the ‘Web…   Read More GSMArena.com – Latest articles