There are all kinds of crazy and innovative gadgets geared towards easing the travel experience, but what can the usual suspects do and not for you?
Camera
If you want to capture moments in a quality that a mobile or tablet just can’t replicate, then there really is no replacement for a proper camera. More robust, a little more water resistant and with fewer delicate components to ruin than say a phone, there’s also the advantage that if you lose the camera, and happen to have your SD card in your pocket or another device, you don’t lose all your work (and contacts) as well. But it means that you get pictures closely reflecting what you experienced – the brilliance and intensity of colours and the landscape you saw with your naked eye. These days some HD phones offer excellent aperture cameras that give high-quality photos and videos, so a camera would only be needed if you insisted on high or professional-quality photos.
Mobile phone
The most versatile device you can have with you. It could essentially save you from a fix when you’re on your own. So, it is important to have a properly functional phone during the trip. Consult a Phone Doctor well in advance in case you have repairs to make. Your phone should be travel-ready and without issues during the holiday.
It could act as your guide to make payments, keep in touch via social media, plan and price activities on the move, as well as stay updated with currency exchange rates. And the simplification of many tasks is all thanks to the increasingly sophisticated apps available to phones.
Email-ready devices also help you keep in touch with co-workers and colleagues, but then again, word processing is more cumbersome on even the biggest screened phones. Then there are the formatting issues because not everything can be stored on micro SD cards, even though their impressive storage capacities go up to 128GB. For example, not all apps you’ll need to use can be moved over to Micro SD, and it is not ideal if you want to bring a library of your favourite titles with you and the app won’t fit anywhere.
Tablet
Ideal for storing games and books offline, and playing online without taking up storage, the tablet is more portable than most laptops while offering most of the same features. Online Casino games are becoming a favourite way to spend the waiting hours on trains or planes because if their suitability for mobiles and tablets. You can take these slots for a spin too on any device, but they are particularly handy on your mobile. Online slots are rapidly rising in popularity while on holiday due to the convenience of the format, and as a new way to spend time winding down. There are attachable keyboards for tablets and greater inbuilt memory and room for external storage like memory cards.
Laptop
If you plan to do some heavier word processing or digitally editing your photos, then you might not want to really leave behind the laptop. This is especially true of longer trips away. It is best to compromise with a portable size laptop with an adequate screen size, and have some compact external storage handy.
Facilities like One Drive make it possible to safely store large volumes of information and access it from any computer, without the storage limitations of one device. Then there is the added relief of not limiting yourself to Android or iOS programs.