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> ...it is designed for the always-online mobile world Soft disagree with that. Signal text and voice chat works just fine if all of your communicating party's

• Freak_NL 11y ago
  You can't use Signal without a smartphone running Android or IOS. Even the webapp requires a linked smartphone; a phone number is a hard requirement of Signal.
  • masklinn 11y ago
    1. that's not a property of the protocol, it's the way they implemented verification 2. it absolutely doesn't require a smartphone, just a routable phone number, that can be a cell phone, a landline, a voip number or a google voice number: http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/212476118-Will-any-phone-number-work-How-do-I-get-a-verification-number- http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21247611...
  • kpcyrd 11y ago
    The jolla store for sailfish has a patched version of signal that doesn't require the google play service.
  • simoncion 11y ago
    > Even the webapp requires a linked smartphone; a phone number is [currently] a hard requirement of Signal. I never said otherwise. What I said was: > Signal text and voice chat works just fine if all of your communicating party's machines are offline. This was in response to an assertion that Signal was designed for the "always-online" world. Signal works just fine when your contact is completely offline for extended periods of time.