chinese smartphone security issues?
hi,
Im thinking of buying a new large screen smartphone. There are chinese devices which are well speced and sell for about half of name brands.
Im less concerned with build quality since an android phone is probably useful for 2-3 years, assuming one wants to keep up with pace. so presumably these phones will last for 3 years or so.
my main concern is with security. there have been news about chinese telecom hw which was claimed to be used for gathering data illegally.
how likely is it these phones have a malicious rom which will be gathering sensitive info and sending it off to a third party?
or am I being paranoid?
TIA