[john70t]

I'm actually thinking about getting a smart phone and joining the rest of modern society. The brush cabin doesn't have heat and timers are hard to find now that radio shack is out of business and people don't pick up hichhiking into town anymore. Ok that was a joke. But seriously I am a babe in the woods and need easy answers. I want something uncomplicated:Phone, basic internet at coffee houses, and I'm reading about how to make your own drawing stylus using a bit of wet cotton over the tip of a pen.
I need PC-compatability so lovely Apple is not an option.
The Samsung J7 looks the most simple and easy to use so far.

Questions:
1). If I bought that phone from ATT do I also need a Samsung and Google account as well as the ATT account?
Those are just manufacturers. Can I just skip those without registering?

2). Is there that much difference between the S7 and S8, besides harder glass?
I don't want iris recognition or any of that personal info floating around on the 'net.
I would ditch fingerprint recognition but they would have that anyway.
It also looks like the J7 does not have GPS so my personal pictures might not get geo-tagged.

3). Can you just plug the USB cord into a laptop/storage and transfer over pictures?
Or do those need to be uploaded into a registered cloud account and then download it back from the cloud?
I need to protect the future market rights on my leaked pon videos with Kate Bekinsale.

4). Can you use any art stylus with any touch screen phone, or only the $700 GalaxyNote8?


5). Is all 'pre-installed software' locked in, or does the phone need to be jailbreaked/rooted/whatever?
I'd like to get rid of all da spam.
Supposedly half the RAM is used by that stuff.