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It will gain you:

* The ability to use the end-to-end encryption identity & verification from your normal Matrix account, by piggybacking on the 'host' matrix client. Whereas call.element.io is not remotely designed (at all) to work with your normal Matrix account, and doesn't have any of the E2EE UI hooked up, and instead relies on a shared secret to access E2EE rooms

* The ability to place VoIP calls inside existing Matrix rooms from your normal Matrix account.

* The ability to reliably background the app & lock the phone when on a call.

* The ability to receive inbound calls via push notifications and CallKit/ConnectionService - i.e. presenting the calls in the native dialer UI of the phone, and treating Element X like a VoIP dialer.

You get the same beautiful UI whether you use call.element.io directly or embed it inside another Matrix client like Element X :P



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