I like my new Xperia Z5, but I’d like a dialler/phone app like the one on my old Nexus 5, which had a smart search for the numbers of local takeawaysbusinesses and smart caller ID for incoming calls.

Unfortunately, it seems Google have restricted its use to Google devices only, so can anyone recommend an App Store dialler/phone app that will do something similar?

Ta.

*cough*

Anyone?

If you wanted that specific dialer you’d need to flash a custom ROM, from the likes of XDA:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z5

I bet there’s lots with that dialer. The Xperia Z phones were always a pain in the arse for flashing, due to the weird way they had licenses for the camera hidden in a separate partition. I’m not sure if that still applies for the Z5, I had an older model.

On the app note, I used the “Should I Answer?” app, which has a decent database of common spam numbers. You can add your own custom ones too. I don’t use it anymore mind, I don’t seem to get any spam bizarrely.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mistergroup.muzutozvednout&hl=en_GB

Yeah, don’t fancy custom-ROMing as remote work email apps generally don’t work on rooted phones.

I’m not too bothered about SPAM to be honest, I don’t really get much. It’s more the smart lookup that’s handy. I’ll have to have a dig around the app store.