Bought an Android smartphone just to check it out...

[zenba]

you can do a lot with android phones without a service plan. wifi still works fine on them. i recovered several androids from the theatre. people didn't go back for them cus the batteries were old and didn't hold a charge. it's pretty simple and cheap to replace those, so now i have a small army of SIMcardless phones lol. can't do that with crapples.

look for the apps that disallow access to the mic/cam. some of the vpn apps do that too.