I love the opportunities my smartphone and laptop give me. But at the same time, they also present me with a lot of challenges in everyday life, and this is where other gadgets comes to my aid.
The first thing I always struggle with is power on my smartphone – whether it’s an Android or iPhone, the problem is always that I usually end up with a mobile phone and a laptop that run out of power when the day is about to end – especially when I’ve been on the move in my car, used the mobile to navigate, and the laptops to work on during the day.
Charger for the car
My car is old enough not to have a usb port so I can charge my mobile phone and its here that Sandberg’s Car Charger USB-C PC + QC 3.0 comes to help me.
Not only does it have a traditional usb port, it also has a usb-c port, and it supports quick charge.
This means that I can charge both my smartphone and my Macbook (which can be charged via a usb port.)
I’m quite excited about Car Charger because it gives me the freedom not to look for an electrical outlet all the time when I’m out of office, and it charges both my iPhone and my Macbook at the same time as an added bonus.
Car charger costs 299 DKK, and you can read more about it here.
Extension to Macbook
I have a Macbook Pro – which you probably guessed already – and in many ways it’s a great laptop. But it also has a small problem, because it has only usb-c ports. So what do I do when I get a traditional usb device in my hand with pictures and presentations from today’s conference? Or if I want to connect an external keyboard, mouse or other to my Macbook?
The answer for me has been to use Nucleum from Kingston. A small gadget you connect to Macbook’s usb-c port. When you do, you expand your Macbook with a range of ports – you actually get two traditional usb ports, two usb type-c ports, an HDMI port, as well as an SDHC and a microSD port.
At the same time, it’s pretty nicely designed, which means it does not looks ugly on your laptop when you connect it.
I am quite excited about Nucleum and it saves me daily from the missing ports that my Macbook suffers.
Nucleum costs 499 DKK and you can read more about it here.
Expand the storage on your iPhone
If you have an iPhone or iPad, you’re well aware of the storage size, and the fact that you’re not able to expand it. If you buy an iPhone with the wrong storage in proportion to your usage, then you cannot really do anything about it, and then there is the problem of easily getting data from out from the iPhone.
Yes, I know, there are ways to get data. Typically, you want to copy things via a cloud service, or if you have both an iPhone / iPad and a Mac, you can use Airdrop. But it’s cumbersome and slow.
But here I have also found a little helper. DataTraveler Bolt is a small external storage device that connects both to your iOS device’s lightning port and to your computer’s traditional usb port.
DataTraveler Bolt comes with a small app, and this is where magic takes place. With it you can either copy/move all images and/or videos, choose which one you want to copy/move or take pictures/videos directly onto DataTraveler Bolt.
I think it’s a great way to free up space on the phone, especially when you, like me, often take pictures on my iPhone from conferences and want to put these pictures in specific folders on my laptop.
DataTraveler Bolt comes in three different sizes, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB and comes with a cover that allows you hook DataTraveler Bolt to your keys.
The price for 128GB is 596 DKK and you can read more about it here.
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