Why iPhone 7 is the safest smartphone in the world

The bitter truth is that smartphones nowadays aren't private, even if they are always in the hands of users and are incredibly personal devices.

The iPhone 7, despite being a Made in China phone, doesn't have this problem. But Android phones?

They have this problem of privacy - in some cases real, in some in terms of perception.

No, this is not all the fault of Google, which meticulously and methodically tries to collect all the data it can from an Android phone.

The company has some sort of privacy policy in place and does attempt to, if only as a token gesture, keep the user data away from prying eyes.

The bigger problem is the software that most of the Chinese phone makers are putting in their phones.

The whole world of Android is built on advertising. And that means increasingly, the software and apps in the Android phones are looking to mine user data.

This week we saw an example of this. Researchers in the US found that many phones sold by BLU mobile had software from a company called Shanghai Adups Technology, which was sending message and contact data to servers in China.

This data was then, presumably, used by companies to build a user profile for advertisement.

Almost all Android phone makers except Google, which now has the ownership of Android as well as its own phones called Pixel, use modified Android in their phones.

The iPhone, meanwhile, is different. It is not built around advertising. "Our business model is very straightforward: we sell great products. We don't build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don't monetise the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don't read your email or your messages to get information to market to you. Our software and services are designed to make our devices better. Plain and simple," says Apple CEO Tim Cook.

This makes all the difference. Not all Android phones are unsafe. Companies like Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus, HTC and Sony are big companies.

They surely won't risk their reputation by building backdoors or snooping tools in their phones.

But it is also clear that if you want the best privacy, the phone you should go for is the iPhone 7 or the iPhone 7 Plus; that is, if you can afford them.

(Courtesy of Mail Today.)

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