Get an iPhone 8 or newer via At&t. As far as privacy, there are things you can do to keep your info off the web, but the tech companies - apple, Google, Amazon, FB, At&t, your internet provider and NSA will have everything you say, search, watch, text, buy, look at, and everyplace you go, how fast you are going, your heart rate, etc. the iPhone spies on you as ALL smart phones do. But so is Amazon, your email provider, your cell phone provider, your internet provider, your credit card company, your car, and even the USPS. Then there are traffic cameras, facial recognition, license plate scanners, and google earth. So even if you hole up in the middle of nowhere with no cell phone or internet, I can use google earth and count your cows, tell when it’s time for you to put in a new fence, estimate the number of tomatoes you get every year and much more.
I guess there isn’t much way around it. Privacy is dead. My computer regularly pops up ads for things I talk about. I would say go in the bathroom and turn on the tub to have a private conversation, but wait, computwr programs can isolate voices so that won’t work either.
“I can use google earth and count your cows, tell when it’s time for you to put in a new fence, estimate the number of tomatoes you get every year and much more.”
You know the aerial photos are not real-time, right?
Speaking of heart rate, yes,I can’t believe I may buy an Apple watch. The news ones do monitor your heart ... AND do an electrocardiogram and automatically email it to cardiologist or doc. Not bad, as I am 70 in 3 days.
Also, It tracks your mobility “tripping”, “falling” or “slipping” ... it gauges whether you get up in a timely fashion and calls Emergency Services if you do not respond ...also calls your emergency contact.
I was stunned when I got to be elderly to find that I fall often... or more often than I would like. Some have been close calls and could have been on stairs given one of my places had lots of stairs.
Turns out that Apple is not just the biggest phone/watch sold ... it completely took over the plain old watch market outselling every other make.
Not a surprise really, as anyone watching the cell phone market made the observation that when someone wanted to know the time, they would look at their cellphone, not their watch.
Watches are pretty much dinosaurs without ones with computers and many of the super high-end brands have had Apple do a version.
Sharin, you are wrong about Apple spying on you. Reading your post, I see your problem is that you have GOOGLE in everything you are doing and THEY are the spy. I too used to have things pop up on my computer about what I was talking about. . . But no more. I banished everything Google from all my Apple devices, even their pop up ads with an ad blocker. Voilá. Peace. With Apple you are their customer, not their product!
Do what I did long ago; get rid of Google!
What you said about the carriers is true. So be careful.