Personally, I have a clamshell.
It's my second clamshell, an LG VN220. It replaced my previous
clamshell, after my first vacation to Canada: the previous clamshell was
a paperweight from the moment my bus from Seattle to Vancouver crossed
the Canadian border, up to the moment my flight from Toronto landed back
in the U.S.
It has a camera, a rudimentary web browser, and a totally useless email
reader that will not connect to my ISP's mail server AT ALL.
(Fortunately, the web browser works just fine with my ISP's web-mail
interface.)
And if I need to go online with my tablet, my phone can provide a WiFi
hotspot for it. (I flatly refuse to accept a home broadband connection
until such time as Net Neutrality is legislated, court-tested, settled law.)
Before my first clamshell, I had "candy bar" phones. Then, while on
vacation, I chest-dialed home, and nearly put my mother in the hospital
with worry.
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JHHL
