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Some smartphones are locked down by their vendors. There's plenty of options to get full root access on something that's for all intents and purposes a smartphone, especially if you don't particularly care about warranty and/or keeping commerical apps functional.

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The radio on all commercially available smartphones are locked down to meet regulatory requirements and runs on an entirely different CPU from the Android OS that you might have root on.

The same's true for the radio on a Raspberry Pi, though.

True but they are commonly used to control other non-consumer (e.g. unregulated) radios via GPIO, and in POCs for threat exploitation demonstrations which are all over YouTube for idiots to mimic... and unlike phones they aren't carried around by almost everyone on a daily basis.

I simply adore how flexibly-placed the goalposts are in this particular game of Calvinball.

Seriously, this thread reads almost as if 5 different people have chimed in with their own individual thoughts

I'd reply very directly and in earnest, but such a reply would violate the guidelines.

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