Originally Posted by
draver
I just got a free Motorola Edge 2022 phone from a promotion T-Mobile has been running for about a month or more. It's a pretty decent Android phone and seems to retail for around $350-$500 depending upon the memory and vendor. I am mentioning it in this thread because with PDANet installed, it works quite well as a WiFi bridge for travel. I have been testing it for over a week and it hasn't lost connection or varied the speeds it provides. When connected to just about any WiFi source the output is about 30-50% of the source speed. That is decent for a device that has over 24 hours standby, and is easy to set up and charge. It has a USB C charge port and a very bright screen, with up to 144 Hz refresh rate. They advertise up to 2 days use on a charge from the 4800mah battery.
I didn't know other Android phones still need to use an app for WiFi bridge mode. With all my Pixel phones, when you turn on WiFi Hotspot, it auto select the faster network (mobile or WiFi) to be used for the hotspot. Or I could just turn off mobile data and force it use WiFi bridge mode.