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TL;DR Calling Cards offer a great way to customize how incoming calls appear on your own phone.
So far, though, the system has lacked a way for you to choose how your Calling Card will appear remotely.
A new “My calling card” screen could finally give you that opportunity.
Apple’s got its Contact Posters on iOS, and earlier this year we saw Calling Cards arrive for Android, letting users customize what they see when their friends and family call. Google’s already been working to add new options there, like letting you fine-tune the fonts, but this whole time there’s been a fundamental problem with how Calling Cards work — and now it looks like Google might actually get around to resolving it.
For as great as Calling Cards are, anyone who’s familiar with Contact Posters on iOS will be quick to point out Google’s major limitation: While you can give all your contacts their own custom looks, there’s no way for that to work the other way around, and let you define how your own Calling Card should appear on remote devices.
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At least, that’s how Google’s implementation has worked so far, but looking through version 197.0.821392025-publicbeta-pixel of the Phone by Google app, we’ve uncovered a new option that sure seems to address this oversight.
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