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That looks like a great app. Thanks. Can you send SMS to a regular number with this?
by pomian 5y ago
That looks like a great app. Thanks.
Can you send SMS to a regular number with this?
- scotty79 5y agoI'm not sure if it's great. It just lets you communicate without endangering valuable resource that your phone number is. > Can you send SMS to a regular number with this? Why would it do that? Every phone has perfectly good sms app. What would that even mean? Using sms as a transport layer? Or making messages passed through internet look like pseudo sms messages to someones phone number?
- mburns 5y agoFWIW, Signal can send SMS to a regular number on Android. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Can-I-send-SMS-MMS-with-Signal-#android_sms https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Ca...
- pomian 5y agoThanks for the reminder. The idea was to use signal with a degoogled phone. It would be great if signal could send SMS without the cell network. There are places and devices, without cell connections.
- int_19h 5y agoIt's the network itself that is limiting this, since SMS was designed for intra-network communication - so the sender needs some kind of network ID. Something like Google Fi can provide a web-based client for your SMS (which works on any device and doesn't require cellular) because they know your virtual SIM and can emulate it as needed. But I don't see how Signal could pull that off.
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- kdmccormick 5y ago> Why would it do that? To avoid splitting one's messaging threads between two different apps. > Every phone has perfectly good sms app. Eh, I find the default Android SMS app to be lacking. I can't organize threads or mark messages as unread. You know, basic stuff that email apps figured out a long time ago.
- Humphrey 5y ago> Why would it do that? If I remember correctly, Signal was first explained to me as a secure SMS app. That is it stores your SMS's more securely than the stock apps did... and if you were messaging somebody who also used Signal, then you'd be upgraded to an end-to-end encrypted message. That said, now I'm on iOS, it doesn't let me do that, so I only use it for contacts with Signal.
- pomian 5y agoFirst, it would be great to be able to send SMS messages without using the cell network, just through internet. Then you could use computers, tablets, etc. As far as I know only textplus/nextplus allows that, but it had become very buggy, and definitely not secure. Also you don't need a cell number to communicate with people through the cell network.
- Humphrey 5y agoYes, on Android - it can replace your SMS app, and uses secure storage so that other apps do not have access to your SMS's.