For those that resist giving up their flip phone...

I was one of the flip phone diehards until this last May when I needed to work a trade show for a week. I have a bad back and did not want to carry my laptop around all day (too far to go back to hotel room and no where to secure laptop on show floor). My wife and daughter convinced me to get smartphone so that I could respond to my work emails without having to pack my laptop. It worked out and now when I am working away from my desk, I don't feel I have to even take my laptop most of the time, I can handle the work on my phone. It gives me freedom to keep up on my work when I need to without forcing me to pack laptop around.

We have enough data on the mobile share that I can use my phone as hotspot if needed for the occasions when I need to use my laptop and recently it has also worked well when the internet was down at the house..