Google Phone app vs Stock Samsung phone app?

tismydroid

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Samsung phone way better i don't like Google phone , plus it's definitely ugly, my opinion , most will tell you the same Samsung is way better and better looking.
I agree. The Google phone app (GP) might be worth it if you could access transcripted visual voice mail or recording features but apparently those features (as well as several other features) are only available if the GP app was pre-installed on the phone. With the Samsung phone app I am able to access my visual voicemail directly through the app whereas can't with GP... which is very inconvenient.
 

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I agree. The Google phone app (GP) might be worth it if you could access transcripted visual voice mail or recording features but apparently those features (as well as several other features) are only available if the GP app was pre-installed on the phone. With the Samsung phone app I am able to access my visual voicemail directly through the app whereas can't with GP... which is very inconvenient.
Exactly its only for pixels, thats why i stay with the native calling app
 

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I know this is a few months old, but I was "googling" something related to your question and came across your post. I like the Samsung Dialer app and there are a few features that the google one doesn't have that I wanted to try (running the One UI beta, wanted to try the transcription call feature, its not in English but I wanted to use it for spam calls, for that its awesome!) The ONE THING that the Google Dialer app has that I absolutely love is the search feature. In the Samsung App, it only searches your contacts, but say you wanted to call the Chinese Food place for a delivery order. If you use the Google Dialer app, you just open it and click search and type in "Chinese food near me" or the name of the place and because it uses the Google Search it finds it even if its not in your contacts list. I use that feature ALL the time. Much faster than googling the the place, then either tapping the phone number or copying and pasting it into the dialer app. I happen to be looking to see if maybe Samsung was planning on adding that feature to their app, if they did it would be perfect. But for me, that is the one major thing that separates the two and I didn't see anyone else pointing that out, so thought I would contribute.
 

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I know this is a few months old, but I was "googling" something related to your question and came across your post. I like the Samsung Dialer app and there are a few features that the google one doesn't have that I wanted to try (running the One UI beta, wanted to try the transcription call feature, its not in English but I wanted to use it for spam calls, for that its awesome!) The ONE THING that the Google Dialer app has that I absolutely love is the search feature. In the Samsung App, it only searches your contacts, but say you wanted to call the Chinese Food place for a delivery order. If you use the Google Dialer app, you just open it and click search and type in "Chinese food near me" or the name of the place and because it uses the Google Search it finds it even if its not in your contacts list. I use that feature ALL the time. Much faster than googling the the place, then either tapping the phone number or copying and pasting it into the dialer app. I happen to be looking to see if maybe Samsung was planning on adding that feature to their app, if they did it would be perfect. But for me, that is the one major thing that separates the two and I didn't see anyone else pointing that out, so thought I would contribute.
I miss that feature on my S22. I just downloaded the Google dialer and am going to use it.
 
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o4liberty

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I am a pure Google user and the dialer app is much better than the Samsung dialer app.

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My older Huawei phone if I picked a contact in the phone app directly made a call. Currently using Samsung dialer and I get a row with phone message and video. Any way to just make a direct call?
 

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So, everything about the Google phone layout seems great. But I can't turn on wifi calling. I've gone through the steps provided by Google but it's not an option. They say because my carrier doesn't support it, but it works (not well, hence the change) on my Samsung stock app.
So confused.
 

Laura Knotek

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So, everything about the Google phone layout seems great. But I can't turn on wifi calling. I've gone through the steps provided by Google but it's not an option. They say because my carrier doesn't support it, but it works (not well, hence the change) on my Samsung stock app.
So confused.
Do you have a factory unlocked device from Samsung or a carrier device?
 

chubby22

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I like the Google Phone App, because I can do searches for nearby places in my area. Which is very useful around here.
 

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