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Better "generic" icons for numbers in call history

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
18/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

This is a feature request for call-history icons in an Android dialer, and the body shows no code paths or files. Design is still open: landline versus mobile detection, or new versus seen-before numbers, and both need a decision and a number-classification approach first. The one comment has gone 232 days without a reply. Before writing code, get a maintainer to pick one direction and say where the icon logic lives.

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Description

feature request
Checklist
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  • I have read the FAQs inside the app (Menu -> About -> FAQs) and my problem isn't listed.
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  • This issue contains only one feature request.
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Feature description

A basic implementation - differentiate landline calls from mobile calls. Artist's impression:

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Another idea could be to have the icon show for numbers that are "new" vs have been seen before (in call history). This could also be expanded to indicate spam numbers in future:

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Why do you want this feature?

Currently, most of the numbers in my call history begin with '0' (or '+' for country code)

The icon doesn't show much useful info:

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Additional information

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