Are old and cheap smartphones actually better for privacy? Because the development of smartphones looks like this: The newer a device is, the more it has privacy invasive technologies integrated. Currently they are shoving AI into everything and all new Android devices are surveilled by Gemini. Client Side scanning will become the norm in the next months. Older and cheap smartphones on the other hand, don't have these "features". I am using for example a device with Android Go and it has no Gemini (it has Google Assistant instead). So my argument is: Devices with limited hardware are actually better from a privacy perspective, because they don't have the newest privacy invading technologies.