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That's not entirely true, I have an Android phone without any closed source Google junk installed (including GSF) and RedPhone works just fine using SMS for signaling.

However, I do wonder if Moxie might be planning on deprecating the SMS signalling functionality in the future, now that GCM exists and considering it costs about $0.01 per SMS sent by the server...

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RedPhone (for Android) works fine without GSF installed. It just falls back to using SMS instead of GCM for the call signaling.

TextSecure, at least the current Android version, also works without GSF, because SMS is used as message transport.

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Moxie Marlinspike's TextSecure. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri... https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/

Pros: Open source, written by someone well established as being both competent and trustworthy. Easy to use.

Cons: Android-only. iOS version coming out soon. Uses SMS as transport, but will switch to data channel with release of iOS version.

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