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AT&T launched a new spam call blocking service this week called Call Protect. The service blocks calls before they reach your iPhone, but it comes with some big limitations.

Call Protect displays warnings for suspected spam calls, and automatically blocks known fraud calls. The companion Call Protect app for iPhone and Android phones lets users temporarily block calls.

The service is free, but may not be of much use for some AT&T customers because it comes with a big caveat: You need a phone that supports AT&T HD Voice (iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, SE, 7, and 7 Plus) and you must be in an HD Voice coverage area. That covers about two thirds of the United States, but for people outside HD Voice coverage areas—which includes most of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Nebraska—Call Protect won’t work regardless of which phone model you have.

Despite the HD Voice limitations, AT&T’ senior vice president of Device and Network Services Marketing Jeff Bradley sees the service as a valuable tool. “Nuisance calls are an industry-wide problem that unfortunately affect many people,” hw said. “We’ve listened to our customers and know they want a network that provides tools to proactively assist in blocking nuisance calls.”

You can enable Call Protect in the myAT&T app on your iPhone, but it’s easier to first download the free Call Protect companion app from Apple’s App Store. The app enables and disables the service, and lets you control call blocking settings, too.

Call Protect’s App Store reviews are mixed at best. Many are complaining that the setup process failed, which wasn’t a problem when The Mac Observer set it up on one of our test iPhones. Others are complaining the service doesn’t seem to be working, which could mean those users are outside AT&T’s HD Voice coverage areas. Regardless, the initial response to the Call Protect app has been pretty poor.

Source link: https://www.macobserver.com/news/att-launches-call-protect/

The game will be released through the iPhone App Store. It’s supposed to arrive on 15 December, and always has – but the company hasn’t said one time it will be available in the App Store.

Thankfully, Apple has done something unprecedented and apparently specifically made for Super Mario Run: added a “Notify” button to the game so that you can get alerted as soon as it hits. That’s done simply by searching for Super Mario Run in the App Store, and clicking the orange “NOTIFY” button that stands where the “GET” option would usually be.

It’s not thought that the button will trigger the download when it’s released, so it’s still important to keep an eye on your phone and get downloading once it arrives.

(In the meantime, the App Store is offering a Super Mario Run sticker pack, which you can download to help keep you going until the app hits.)

When the game does get launched, it’s likely that it could have some problems. The game relies players to stay online and so the huge expected demand might trigger some issues early on.

Android users are out of luck, for the time being. The game is expected to be released for the platform at some point, but for now is exclusive to iOS.

It might be possible to play the game through an iOS emulator for Android. But it’s not likely to work well, involves downloading the game illegally, and it’s probably going to be better for it to wait for the Android release date, which hasn’t yet been publicly announced.

Independent News Service

Source link: http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/tech-gaming/how-to-download-super-mario-run-as-soon-as-it-is-released-35296877.html