There are smart-dumbphones with features like hotspots. The Nokia 8810 has WhatsApp, 4g and WiFi hotspots, as well as lots of other features previously only found in low end bonafide smartphones. Added bonus with the Nokia I mention is that KaiOS (formerly Firefox OS) probably doesn't ship telemetry to Google.

I did not know that. Thank you, most dumb phone also exclude high speed connections because they are cheap and this isnt a normal usecase.

The 8110 has Google Maps as well as Uber. And food sites work just as well through their mobile web sites.

If battery life is only 9 hours for music playback, I can’t imagine how bad the battery life is when using it as a hotspot.

Oh, when I hotspot my laptop, I almost always have the phone plugged into it to keep the charge up