Join Date: May 2003
Location: Redwood City, CA USA (SFO/SJC)
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I like the idea of not allowing anything to be used (during takeoff and landing) that has a keyboard of some type attached to it. This removes a lot of the ambiguity. The exceptions... the few devices with keyboard that might be considered "handheld" and not a danger during an evacuation, are too few to be a reason to come up with a different description.
If this is in fact the new rule, Kudos to United for figuring out such a simple way to differentiate "small handheld devices" from everything else. ^