Agreed that this is barely a featurephone. But take my elderly mom for example. She won't be caught dead with a smartphone. Too many things to screw up. So

Agreed that this is barely a featurephone. But take my elderly mom for example. She won't be caught dead with a smartphone. Too many things to screw up. So she soldiers on with a dedicated wifi hotspot thing, wasting the 4GB/month plan's unlimited free calling and multimedia messaging and using a separate cell/phone jack gateway with its own SIM and its own plan. I've said before, just put the data SIM in a surplus older smartphone, use that as a hotspot instead, and we can at least text when the computer is messed up again. Won't have it. Note, she lives far enough in the countryside that other internet access is not available and she doesn't need more than 4GB per month, not even close, and the 128kbps fallback after you've used up the 4GB would still keep her email working. A simple phone like this that can still do wifi hotspot might be acceptable. Maybe. She may not be the only person like this.