I mean, that's true, but paying $500 for a security update is a bit obscene given the rest of my phone is more powerful than i actually need despite being old and cheap. Until I find one that has very good signal or my current one breaks properly, I'm not burning that money for a device that i literally wont be able to tell is faster.
Device manifacturers obviously didnt have security in mind. And still, new phones are sold because of strange features nobody needs, instead of 10 years of updates and a headphone jack.
I mean, you can be on airplane mode with bluetooth and wifi off in public spaces. I would need to use a dongle (which doesnt exist! I needed to buy the Apple one)
Funny enough, i actually disable bluetooth when I'm not using it, and i don't use wifi on the phone (no home internet, so it isn't gonna connect to anything anyway).
I'm gonna miss the rear fingerprint sensor as well when i finally replace it.
I doubt it as the Android security model is actually pretty good. It isn't immune but neither is anything else. It is all about least privilege. There is no root so the worse case is you just uninstall something manually.