Comment by throwaway2037

    > Tucked away neatly in Australian law is the concept that a phone that is not iPhone or Android is a criminal device, similar to owning lockpicks. Something like GrapheneOS.

This is untrue. It only took me one simple Google search to find the answer.

My query:

    > "is it illegal in australia to have a mobile phone that does not use iphone or android?"

Top result: https://privacydevices.net/encrypted-phones-legal-australia/

    > Owning, buying, and using an encrypted phone is legal in Australia, and so is installing a different operating system on a device you own.

EDIT

Also, dumb phones are certainly not illegal. Plenty of old folks still use them.