Fair enough. All seems pretty standard to me. I'm looking at a new car as ours died last month. I don't really care about interior or really much. Would like android just so I don't get glare on my phone screen. If it gets me a to b and is cheap, I'm happy.

What would you be protecting from ? What data worries you ? That might help with the smartphone situation.

Yeah with Facebook you basically allow them. ? Whoever they are to track you. Even removing the app doesn't stop them. Recent lawsuits have shown google tracks even with tracking off. So it's kinda hard to have a smartphone and not get tracking.

You can look at matrix. Open source and similar to signal