Maybe my edit went in too late. It really could be a modded platform, which isn't THAT much more expensive. Figure in cost of tweaking the software and providi

Maybe my edit went in too late. It really could be a modded platform, which isn't THAT much more expensive. Figure in cost of tweaking the software and providing infrastructure along with installing custom software on the phone and you've got something that at most probably wouldn't be much more than twice as expensive as a normal smartphone. Exclude infrastructure costs that would probably be there whether you used civilian stock phones or not. I don't see how what you said fully relates. If the soldiers bought their own devices, they wouldn't get to put secret information on them...which was the point I was trying to make. I should have emphasized "more secure" more than I did. The soldiers can freely buy whatever phone they want for their own private use. Why should the taxpayer be buying personal smartphones, anyway?