POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to consider the circumstances in which the search of a cell phone is permitted by the Fourth Amendment even if the search is not authorized by a warrant. Lurking behind this issue is the question whether and when a laptop or desktop computer, tablet, or other type of computer (whether called a "computer" or not) can be searched without a warrant—for a modern cell phone is a computer.
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