Travel

A charger on a map is a claim. The last four check-ins are the evidence.

The room is the same room. What differs is the fee, the cancellation date and who answers when it goes wrong.

The pass is the easy part. The reservations are what catch people out, and they sell out quietly.

Everything that works in a car fails on a bike: the screen is unreadable, the speaker is inaudible and the mount is shaking the camera apart.

Group trips do not fall apart over the destination. They fall apart over a date and a spreadsheet nobody kept.

The airline app usually knows about the delay before the departure board does, which is reason enough to have it installed.

Install it at home on WiFi, switch data to it when the plane lands, and keep your own SIM on for texts.

The second phone in the glovebox is more useful than the first one on the dashboard.

The seven day forecast is nearly the same everywhere. The next two hours is where an app is worth choosing.

The map app gets you from A to B. It rarely tells you which ticket to buy.

The map that works in a tunnel is the one that was downloaded before you entered it.

No signal is easy to design for. One bar is the case that breaks most apps.

One expires downloads after 48 hours in some cases. Knowing which is the whole article.

One works with no signal. The other is useless without one, and better when it has one.

Half the games marketed as offline still phone home before the first level.

Before a flight or a trip with no roaming, these are the apps to set up while you still have WiFi.