Yeah, but without a smartphone and with public phone boxes no longer being a thing, how on earth do you find <ahem> entertainment when away from home for the night?

I frequently spend nights away from home ( ), it's nice not to have to carry a charger.

Me too, except I'm not smelly so have an overnight bag with toothbrush/toothpaste, deodorant, spare pants, etc. Oh and a phone charger. 🙂

I frequently spend nights away from home ( ), it's nice not to have to carry a charger

Perhaps he didn't intend to spend the night away, but was whisked off his feet by a Hot, nubile Scandinavian lady??

Just saying like 😉

He's on STW - yes I'm sure that's the answer

I come here to remind myself what not to grow into.

which particular role models did you have in mind?

I think as long as I can still wheelie and don't own a diesel VAG I should be ok.

I frequently spend nights away from home ( ), it's nice not to have to carry a charger.

But then you have to make sure you've got at least x days left on your phone - otherwise you do have to take one. I always need one so I never have to think about it. My bags are always packed with toiletries and chargers all ready to go.

Plus I use the chargers for bike lights and GPS as well 🙂

But then you have to make sure you've got at least x days left on your phone

😆
It literally lasts weeks, depending on sudoku use.

My bags are always packed with toiletries and chargers all ready to go.

Yeah, but you're all grown up with a family and a proper job and responsibilities and stuff.
I've avoided all that so I can still afford to be recklessly spontaneous.

And the good thing is that the space you save by not packing a charger gives you room for your tickets, maps, books, and your Walkman and tape collection 🙂

It literally lasts weeks, depending on sudoku use.

Literally yes, but it may still literally be near the end of its charge before you literally leave. So you still need to consider that fact.

GrahamS - Member

And the good thing is that the space you save by not packing a charger gives you room for your tickets, maps, books, and your Walkman and tape collection

🙂
I have zero need for any of those things when out of the house. 😀

So you still need to consider that fact.

I've considered it, and the odds are in my favour. 🙂

Sometimes I even venture out of the house [i]without[/i] my phone!
😯

I suppose it's marketing too; your average person-in-the-street would scoff at buying a PDA, but a mobile phone, hey, that sounds handy.

Hence the genius of the iPhone - Palm etc had been trying for ages to persuade people to buy PDA's, with limited success, Nokia tried with the N95 phones, 5Mp camera, music player, GPS, and the tech mags raved about it, but it was utter shit! I had one, it was rubbish, camera couldn't focus on a 70' sailing ship in the middle of Bristol docks, the music player drained the battery in two hours, the GPS would only work with the phone keyboard open, or else use a BT GPS module.
Then the iPhone appeared, I got a 3G, and everything that sucked on the Nokia just worked on the iPhone.
And every subsequent 'smartphone' is a virtual carbon copy.
The genius of marketing, call a Personal Digital Assistant a phone with an 'I' in front, and sell hundreds of millions.

sbob - Member
It does amuse me to see so many people with smartphones in front of them, an umbilical cord snaking its way to the now necessary battery pack in a bag.

That's odd, it's something I actually never see. I do carry a large battery pack around, purely because my phone is an essential part of my work, in particular the satnav, and shortly after I started my job, the 12v USB adaptor I had died without my noticing, and the satnav killed the battery while I was on a delivery, which made life rather awkward, so I always have one with me. Along with a couple of adaptors with at least two USB ports.
I actually needed it yesterday when the crappy Samsung I've been issued with for doing vehicle assessments died three quarters of the way through doing a check-over, and plugging it into the car was not an option, I had to take exterior photos, so I had the thing tethered to the battery in my pocket.
Oh, and I needed it today to run both devices because I couldn't locate the 12v accessory socket or a USB port for the 160 mile drive.
I've never seen anyone else doing it.
Satnav is really the only thing that kills my phone's battery, because of having the screen lit, plus having to keep interrogating the satellite network and run the mapping software,

I generally find a 5200mah external battery is fine and they are pretty compact.

If I envisage being away from a plug socket for more than say 24 hours a bigger one might be better, but newer phones often have extreme power saving modes, where every thing is shut down apart from calls and texts and access to your contacts list.

I was joking about that 20,100 mAh power bank. But I do have one, as it can fully recharge both kids' Hudls on a long trip - which is worth far more to me than my phone 😀

Battery has gone down 1 more bar.
A bit disappointing to be honest