To me a smartphone is defined as a full fledged computer with dumb phone capabilities.

What is the rest of Google (alphabet) doing?

For example, in China the crime rate is incredibly low.

I think a correction is in order: petty crime such as what you have described is indeed low, but organized crime is through the roof. Far higher than in countries considered ‘the west’. Scammers mainly. So much so they’ve had to expand to neighbouring countries in the south/southeast to expand their ‘market reach’.

Wouldn’t it then be a simple matter to notice that a 10gb for only yielded 5gb of “innocent” data after decryption?

Especially since it would be (I assume) simple to ‘predict’ the size of the (“unnested”) plaintext if the cipher and key is known

But if two different messages are encrypted with the same key, doesn’t it by nature produce two different ‘plaintext’? Unless the real secret is much smaller than the decoy message as in the example of the ww2 artist

But wouldn’t a VPN be encrypting my cable internet traffic? (Same for VPN on the phone)

Isn’t there some information theory that says you can’t have two pieces of unique information inside one ?

Yup. Try drawing a diagram and arrows with lines beginning and ending exactly where you want it intuitively with your finger. Not too mention you don’t need to unlock your phone, navigate to an app to do it. Just pop out your pen and go. No need to keep anyone waiting if you’re in the middle of discussing something.

Also one of the reasons I was looking to get a fold because the screen real estate was lacking. But they took away pen support in 7 so what the heck.

Taking impromptu notes is what I use it exclusively for. Also to draw quick diagrams and such. The diagrams drawing helps especially.

Just word note taking can be done with any old notes app. But sketches and diagrams. That’s where I use it most.

So the wait continues

If someone comes up with full colour reflected e-ink with refresh rate better than 24 fps, absolutely.

I will jump immediately no second thoughts once any open phone comes with a good stylus.