Things are about to get much easier for Galaxy S8 owners in several countries. Samsung's partnership with Hiya puts a new tab called “Places” in the native dialer app alongside the Recents and Contacts tabs.
Powered by the Hiya Business Profiles service, Places uses your location to list nearby businesses under various categories like financial, health, automotive, public services, restaurants, shopping and more. Users then have to just tap on the local business that they want to call and the native dialer app will do the rest. It's so simple yet so useful.
Hiya Business Profiles integration with the Galaxy S8 will be available to users in 27 countries across the globe, including the United States where it's supported by all carriers except Verizon. This isn't the first time that Hiya and Samsung have collaborated. Hiya powered caller ID and spam detection in the Galaxy Note 7's dialer app.
