I would encourage any North American or European interested in this sort of thing to go buy a $45 Android phone from aliexpress (or two or three different model

I would encourage any North American or European interested in this sort of thing to go buy a $45 Android phone from aliexpress (or two or three different models, if you're really interested) to see first hand what the very low end of the mobile data smartphone market looks like these days. There are some things out there based on reference mediatek chipset designs that are remarkably not terrible relative to their price. Create a new fake named gmail/google account on one, install some apps from the play store, mess around with it. randomly chosen example: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001470142781.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.768b4655QsZKs8&algo_pvid=e4db9fee-62e1-4ebc-b5f9-dab1c73113d8&algo_expid=e4db9fee-62e1-4ebc-b5f9-dab1c73113d8-3&btsid=0bb0623416180847553736098ed195&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_ https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001470142781.html?spm=a2... https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001586490693.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.768b4655QsZKs8&algo_pvid=e4db9fee-62e1-4ebc-b5f9-dab1c73113d8&algo_expid=e4db9fee-62e1-4ebc-b5f9-dab1c73113d8-19&btsid=0bb0623416180847553736098ed195&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_ https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001586490693.html?spm=a2...