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The Nokia 515 and 301 models have 3.5G, so they might fit the bill:

http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phone/515/ http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phone/301/

No 4G though -- I imagine that Series 40, Nokia's venerable in-house operating system, doesn't support it at all.

The 208 has 3.5 g as well. I have owned both the 515 and the 208. While the 515 is better in terms of hardware (aluminum and gorilla glass throughout) it has some software issues and half the ram of the 208, which seems to me has a better software stack.

I thought both had 64Mb of RAM

Yes, you're right and I was wrong, but the 208 feels much faster for some reason…

I used to tether the 3.5G connection with Bluetooth with my Nokia 515. It worked quite well.

In my experience tethering via bluetooth the bottleneck is BT not the cellular network. I get 4-5x the speed by using USB.

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