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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls by wtallis on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:10PM (#22745241)
> This seems like the same instinct that makes OEMs put mobile modems in laptops, as if I would ever have my laptop but not my phone to which to tether it.

A cellular radio in a laptop gets access to better antennas and a vastly larger battery than what's found in a smartphone.

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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls by thedance on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:38PM (#22745400)
The combination of the batteries in my phone and my laptop is clearly more capacious than the battery in the laptop alone.
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