Burner – Next-generation Phone Numbers for Texts, Calls, Pictures

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Burner, the app that lets you create disposable phone numbers you can use for a variety of purposes including online ads, while traveling, for business projects, dating profiles, and more, has been, until now, a fairly utilitarian sort of messaging app. You could create number, call, text and check voicemails, but not much else. Today, that changes with the launch of…

Burner has released a substantial redesign of its iPhone app for creating disposable numbers. The new look falls in line with iOS 7 design conventions while also making it easier to create and manage numbers....

Burner brought some hot privacy features to the iPhone last year with its disposable phone number service, and now that fire has spread to Android....

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If you're an iPhone user looking to maintain a bit of privacy from time to time, you can now turn to a new app called Burner thats lets you create temporary phone numbers that can be disposed of at will.

For those times when you want to keep your phone number private, Ad Hoc Labs has released a new app for creating disposable ones. Called Burner, the app just launched on iPhone, and gives users the ability to create temporary numbers for placing calls and sending texts. When you make a call the new number will show up as the caller ID, and you have the option to erase the number for good at any time. Ad Hoc sees the temporary numbers being used for "dating, Craigslist, short-term projects, side...

So, there’s a new app out there for the iPhone that will let you create a temproary number that routes to your real phone number, and can be set to stop working, or “burn,” after a set amount of time. Basically, the free Burner app comes with enough credits to create a temporary phone number called a mini-burner that expires after 20 minutes of talk time and/or 60 text messages, or after 7 days. Or you can burn it sooner. Inbound and outbound calls use up your actual phone plan minutes and/or texts, but...

Burner is a brilliant service for those times when you’ve wanted or needed a disposable phone number. These numbers, aka Burners, can be used for voice and text, and give…