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Are there any that can act as dumbphones and hotspots for my tablet or laptop?

If you want to go fancy, the Punkt MP02 should do that at some point soon: https://www.punkt.ch/en/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/

$229,-- for the MP01 version that is 2G only is an outrage. nice design & great marketing though.

I feel like there might be some room for sensible startups in the minimal dumbphone segment if things like "less pixels", "no features" and "makes phone calls" are actual selling points now and they can price the thing at $200+.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/25/17044634/nokia-8110-matri...

And it plays Snake.

Depending on your definition of "hotspot", most of them can. Provided the phone has bluetooth, you can address it from your laptop as a data-modem through pppd.

The cons are the setup, which may or may no be canceled out by the geek-cred from having AT modem commands whiz by.

The pro is the usually longer battery life of a dumb phone which means you can be fully online, anywhere, for the duration of your laptop battery.

The Nokia 8110 4g, which is still not out, should do that. It's a little bit expensive though...

> The unique shape also means you can spin the phone in ways you never imagined. [1]

Amazing marketing!

[1] https://www.nokia.com/en_gb/phones/nokia-8110-4g

It's been out since early-mid July, in Europe at least: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nokia-16ARGB01A03-Mobile-Phone-Blac...

Sonim XP5, for AT&T or Verizon

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2017/07/sonim-xp5-verizons-...

The new Nokia 8110 4G can.

The Kyocera DuraXE is LTE-capable and can broadcast a wifi hotspot.

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