Posted on June 22, 2011, at 4:18 PM .
We’ve written about Call Control a few times on BlackBerryCool and we’ve been told that the app has reached the 1M user milestone. The app is developed by Seattle developer Ben Sharpe, founder of the self-funded venture Kedlin Company, and has grown through word of mouth and organic growth. This app is a true testament to the new-age of doing business where companies can grow to reach over a million people without the use of a single paid advertisement.
In less than 2 years, Call Control has built a company of a million plus customers* and has empowered them to block unwanted calls and texts from scammers, telemarketers and private-caller nuisances. The only call blocker with a Community Blacklist, generated from over 1,000,000 users, Call Control tracks over 4 Million callers and blocks thousands of unwanted calls and texts before they even reach your device. Call-Control also offers an “Always-On” app experience with constant feature updates and friendly, prompt customer service.
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Posted on February 24, 2010, at 12:55 PM .
The Kedlin Company have announced their BlackBerry app Call Control, which was voted the Best Save Time App by the Verizon development community. The app syncs with a community-generated blacklist of spam callers, to help stop telemarketers and unwanted calls from reaching your phone.
Call Control features include:
- Call Control stops thousands unwanted calls without the user having to key in individual telephone numbers.
- Call Control stays up to date with new spam callers by updating your Blackberry on a daily basis.
- If a spam call does get through, users can easily report the call and instantly block it from calling again, all with one click.
- Callers with a restricted Caller ID are also blocked from calling.
The app looks promising and it’s going to be important for the Kedlin company to keep their community-generated list accurate. The problem with blocking calls is that even if a single important call gets blocked, it doesn’t matter how many spam calls are prevented.
Call Control is currently available for Blackberry and comes as a freemium service. There is a free Lite version and a paid Pro version for $7.99. Call Control can be downloaded by pointing your device to everycall.us/m/.
