Time for a new thread of it own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering

Some of us may
have given up almost completely on the idea of
any kind of resurrection of n900.
( a quasi-legitimate debian handphone which:

1. is not Locked down inside a walled-garden of no-can-do
and/or
2. does not go spewing every jiggle of information over the internet.)


What is the best we can do for tethering tablets,
now that linux tablets are actually doable
to some extent ?


I did use an Android but the battery now resembles
what my grandma's feather bed looked like in the springtime,
so I guess I need to go buy a new better model.

I abandoned all faith in Ubuntu Touch
when I discovered it was simply Ubuntu lipstick
smeared onto the snout of an Android Pig

(a Boar with teats, no less).
I began using it as a tether for my ACER w4 running AntiX MX16
which is a wonderful solution to my Baytrail woes.
I am hoping to find another better tablet in the near future.
Until then I still want to tether my tablet with something better
than this Aquaris E5 which is now beginning to have issues also.

I am inclined toward an ASUS Zenphone 3
(I have had good fortune with ASUS, mostly)

But my question to everyone is:

Does anyone have good recommendations for a tether phone?

It needs to have strong battery and good comms
(no Broadcom toilet-bowl scum scrapings).

CPU and memory are not critical, it will not be doing anything
aside from SMS phone calls and an occasional gps read
or whatever. No critical life info on the device,
no social media games or other stuff.
It will be just a disposable internet hack for whatever tablety things
I might manage to get running "debians" on.


What do you recommend?

Thank you