I did an experiment similar to this a few years back, but I lasted about six months. After touchscreen on my iPhone 6 Plus died prematurely two days after the warranty expired, and neither Apple nor Verizon would help, I decided to simply forgo owning a smartphone for a while. I used one on WiFi only, and went back to an LCD flip phone from 2002. This worked great, except people kept complaining that they couldn’t te…
Oh, and I’m replying to my own post to add another advantage of an old iPhone over a cheap android: good included system utilities. On the Kyocera many important tools are some combo of crippleware and spyware. There are ads in the included file browser, unless you pay this random third party.
Also, there are several useless apps that I cannot install, like the Sprint and Virgin game apps, and apps from people who have paid them, like Lookout, but I guess that is more of an android thing than merely a cheap android thing.