Originally Posted by
Organ Morgan.
I finally succumbed last month to the smartphone craze by purchasing a Chinese one (Umidigi A3 Pro for £97 at eBay - it's massive but beautifully designed) that someone at a forum who seemed to know his onions said was the cheapest and best he'd ever owned. I did so purely for mobile internet data to tether at home as speed achieved through the phone line is and always has been utter shite.
The next day I read a lengthy article which claimed the reason modern smartphones increasingly have a non-removable battery is because the only way to be sure spooks and hackers can't eavesdrop and the device isn't saving and transmitting location data is by removing the battery. Sure enough, the Umidigi came with a non-removable battery. Grr.