Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist
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DITCH YOUR VANITY DEVICE

I'm going to say it like it is: If you bought your cell phone for vanity purposes, you deserve to be tracked everywhere because vanity took precedent to common sense. Here is what a vanity cell phone is:

Any cell phone that you can't take the battery out of, that has no features you actually need, but was purchased because you did not want to be seen with something cheap. There's no conceivable reason, other than water resistance, for ANY cell phone to have a battery you can't take out. If your cell phone is not fully immersible and you can't take the battery out, that battery is non-removable for ONE REASON: To prevent you from taking it out to avoid being tracked.

Currently, every cheap cell phone I know of allows you to take the battery out, but when you start going over $120 in price, the option begins to vanish.

So the question then is, why do people need cell phones that cost over $120? 4G is not the reason, one I bought for $35 has that. Perhaps you could argue that you want a better camera, but lots of phones in the $100 price range have decent cameras, (so decent that to beat them you need a separate dedicated camera) so the camera is not the reason. And the $35 phone I have surfs the web totally unfettered, handles every last web site with aplomb and does full HD no sweat. It will suck in a signal deep in the back country no sweat. Are those things not the basics most people want their cell for? I know there are avid gamers that want to go around with their cell phone playing games but that's not the majority of the types I see walking around with high dollar phones, all that processor goes to waste while they surf Youtube and Twitter -

If you have a high dollar phone and you're not a gamer, why do you have it? Is it because you don't want to be seen with something cheap?

Priorities I guess. Don't let vanity get you contact traced. Vanity may well land you in a FEMA camp if the communists actually get "coronavirus contact tracing" done.