Travelers who forget a crucial charger, break a BlackBerry or venture out of cell phone coverage can find themselves marooned, cursing the gadgets that looked so new and shiny coming out of the box. A dead cell phone is enough to ruin even a week on the beach. And a business trip without your laptop? You might as well rely on smoke signals.
Worse, international travelers must endure that particular form of torture reserved only for those who discover too late that their cell phone doesn’t work in Singapore, or that they left their adapter back home on the kitchen counter.
Fortunately, many devices these days are universal, thus obviating for regular overseas travelers the need to have two laptops, two PDAs and two cell phones, and consolidating the expensive and easily misplaced accessories, such as chargers and charge converters, one needs to keep everything operating on full battery power. Today, because of developments like tri-band technology for cell phones, GSM networks from T-Mobile for BlackBerries and multi-purpose chargers from Mobility Electronics, travel between nations–at least technically–has become increasingly seamless.
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By: Sophia Banay, Forbes
