I struggled with a Windows thing for years, only managing to get it to connect up to hotel wi-fi about one time in ten (even my Kindle managed better than that) so an iPhone was a revelation. It worked (more or less) every time and led me on to looking at iPads. Even in a case the full size one may be a bit fragile for bike travel (we've broken the screen twice in a year) but an iPad mini in a case has survived the last 12 months unscathed. Being small it fits into my bike jacket pocket so not quite so obvious as a laptop
When I have the need / space I have a small bluetooth keyboard for it and that's probably the setup I'll use across the US this autumn. For low level stuff (web searches, email, Skype, blogging etc) it's just as good as the MacBook Pro I'm typing this on and I'm not sure I'll be doing much video editing or Photoshop stills work as I travel.
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