Hi Lindsay If you're not interested in most smartphone aspects, check out the new Nokia 3310 3G. It's a revamp of the original Nokia bestseller. It has a very long battery life, which may be quite important to you. You'll need to be on the Telstra mobile network to be sure of a signal in rural areas. You can get the phone on its own from Harvey Norman and JB Hi-fi, both also online, but Telstra or a dealer may also have some bundle arrangement that includes the phone and a mobile plan. I have a Nokia 6 myself (runs straight Android) and am very pleased with how HMD Global has rebooted the trusted Nokia brand and quality. Not altogether surprising though as HMD was founded by some of the original Nokia people in Finland. I'd prefer a fully OSS device too, however battery life is important, as is availability. I did have an early Ubuntu phone from BQ, before I sadly killed it (my fault entirely). It was good, but Canonical has dropped their mobile phone explorations. I think that if you don't need the smartphone stuff, not having a full smartphone is probably best as it keeps you away from a big proprietary stack with tracking apps, and NOT having a big screen and lots of apps does wonders for the battery of course. Regards, Arjen.