Advice?

DeletedUser660

I have been experimenting with grapheme for a few years now. I keep it on a secondary phone and use it for work related tasks. I have successfully used it with cape wireless, T-Mobile, google fi, and us mobile. While all of these have worked well (except fi for my degoogle desire) I have heard that perhaps a more private approach might be to use a data only card with VoIP/sms. While cape is plenty private the cost makes it a hard sale for a device I rarely use. So for the question part for a person in the USA what VoIP client is the best? Also what kind of experience is that on grapheneos?

Murcielago

DeletedUser660

If I may make a recommendation: perhaps you could change the title of this discussion to something more specific than “Advice?"

It would make it easier for people to help you and also easier for others to find help later if they have a similar question.

Johnnyloans

DeletedUser660

Signal, molly, threema are good options

W1zardK1ng

DeletedUser660 Jmp.Chat

They have voip numbers, you can get a new one or port your number to it if you want that, its open source, and private. if you wish you can host your own instance for the jabber id or they will spin one for you if you are a purchase a plan. Also the Cheogram integrates with the dialer app in android so that you can make or receive calls like how you do normally, only for SMS you will have to use their app Cheogram or you can use any other apps that supports xmpp. You may use apps like dino to receive calls/sms on your pc too.

They have data only sim, from Plus from poland roaming in US, the data balance never expires, you can use it whenever you need. Perfect for your case.

DeletedUser660

Murcielago will do just realized that I don't know how to change it after posting

DeletedUser660

W1zardK1ng I'm.gonna give cheogram a shot

vividsquirrel

I've had good experience with using voip.ms for the voip service and Linphone for the Android app. It connects to voip.ms via the SIP protocol. It supports calls and SMS, but unfortunately MMS doesn't work in Linphone but does through the voip.ms website and official app. It's a little bit technical to set up but certainly not unreasonable. The upside is that it's quite cheap depending on how mucb you use it. Just maintaining a number is like $0.85/month. It does cost per minute and per message, but it's not much either.

DeletedUser660

vividsquirrel I'll try this one to if its cheap I figure trying g it out can't hurt much

W1zardK1ng

DeletedUser660 You can use this single use referral code B2D4494C, to get credits equivalent to one month, only pay after one month if you are satisfied with the service.

DeletedUser660

W1zardK1ng I already have a lone through cape. Mostly for the 6 months of proton plus. Was slightly disappointed I had to make a new proton account but I lived.