Summer holiday tech

[chrisvenus]

On my grand summer travels I'm considering taking various bits of tech with me and I thought I'd solicit opinions and ideas from people on the subject... Things I am considering taking are roughly as follows:

MP3 player

This shouldn't be too much of a problem. Thanks to ext2366 I have an mp3 player that is pretty damned nifty. Main problem is it charges

Comments

[lanfykins]

I believe I have somewhere a completely unused newish phone that you can have if you want.

[bateleur]

I have a preference for stuff being posted here, but if you do decide to post elsewhere I'll set up a syndicated account here anyway (the real only difference being fewer comments).

[secondhand_rick]

With regards digital cameras, I recommend one that fits easily into a pocket rather than a bulky SLR type. If it's small and light enough, you'll carry it everywhere, and so you'll always have it with you.

Also, get into the habit of taking photographs of maps, hotel phone numbers, passport details, street signs of places you might need directions too and so on. Most modern cameras (or memory cards to be more specific) have plenty of capacity, so it's no problem to basically use a digital camera as a backup of visual data.

Cameras

[karohemd]

For compact cameras, the Canon IXUS range is really good, hard wearing, good picture quality, really compact, optical zoom etc

[innokenti]

Well, Vodafone are apparently abandoning roaming charges, so a potential solution could be to get a Vodafone sim-card to go in the phone so as not to put up with faff on foreign sims and the possibility of leaving money on pay-as-you-go cards that you won't use again

[hsenag]

I think they're only abandoning them within Europe, and then only for a limited period.

[bateleur]

Mostly correct.

Information here.