After the usual screech and squawk sounds ordinarily associated with a modem connection, e-mail is downloaded and received.

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He came to her house, and armed with a modem, he set up an e-mail account and hooked her up to the university's computer system.

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The iPhone features an integrated Web browser, tiltable 7.4-inch gray scale touchscreen, an e-mail client, a 56-kilobits-per-second modem, two phone jacks, a full duplex speaker phone, and a keyboard that slides under the phone to save space.

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