Your phone
Many cities, stations and cafes have areas where you can work on your laptop and log into wifi and hotspots. For example, sitting waiting for a bus in Switzerland I read a sign telling me I was in a hotspot. In the UK in London on stations you get free wifi, although the time is limited. You can also use phones in branches of Wetherspoons pub and Costa coffee shops. At Costa you may have to log in and get their password, but usually once you are on the system it works at every coffee shop.
Your iPad
A friend of mine from Writers' Summer School wrote to me on Facebook that she was unable to use her iPad to connect to the log on system for charging on Virgin, although the system says you can charge your iPad. Before that I hadn't even realised that you could use sockets to charge up use your machines on long journeys.
Charging Forbidden
Sockets on London overground trains have signs saying Not For Public use. This is a big disappointment. It costs them very little. In fact, surely it's like charging your phone in a moving car. The electricity is generated by the car.
I look forward to the day when my laptop and phone will be charged by sunlight or the movement of my wrist, - even a wind up computer, like a wind-up radio.
Meanwhile, if you invest in a power pack and charge it before you set off on your day's travels, you can be sure of more security and the ability to make that vital phone call, 'I'm here at the station/airport. Come and find me!'
Please, Mr Mayor, help the public use phones on public transport. What's the point of giving us free wifi when a phone has died.
The most vulnerable people are the ones most likely to have phones which die on them. When we travel home late at night, that's when we need the safety of a phone.
I also read that somebody was fined for staying more than two minutes at a pickup point.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/iphone/11737063/Man-arrested-after-charging-iPhone-on-London-Overground.html
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-2242801/The-trick-beat-private-parking-tickets-I-dodged-service-station-fine.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2981794/10-minute-let-avoid-parking-ticket-month-new-law-let-overstay-meter-without-fine.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3170758/Pregnant-mum-hit-70-parking-fine-stopping-just-SIX-minutes-partner-changed-baby-s-nappy.html
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker.
Many cities, stations and cafes have areas where you can work on your laptop and log into wifi and hotspots. For example, sitting waiting for a bus in Switzerland I read a sign telling me I was in a hotspot. In the UK in London on stations you get free wifi, although the time is limited. You can also use phones in branches of Wetherspoons pub and Costa coffee shops. At Costa you may have to log in and get their password, but usually once you are on the system it works at every coffee shop.
Your iPad
A friend of mine from Writers' Summer School wrote to me on Facebook that she was unable to use her iPad to connect to the log on system for charging on Virgin, although the system says you can charge your iPad. Before that I hadn't even realised that you could use sockets to charge up use your machines on long journeys.
Charging Forbidden
Sockets on London overground trains have signs saying Not For Public use. This is a big disappointment. It costs them very little. In fact, surely it's like charging your phone in a moving car. The electricity is generated by the car.
I look forward to the day when my laptop and phone will be charged by sunlight or the movement of my wrist, - even a wind up computer, like a wind-up radio.
Meanwhile, if you invest in a power pack and charge it before you set off on your day's travels, you can be sure of more security and the ability to make that vital phone call, 'I'm here at the station/airport. Come and find me!'
Please, Mr Mayor, help the public use phones on public transport. What's the point of giving us free wifi when a phone has died.
The most vulnerable people are the ones most likely to have phones which die on them. When we travel home late at night, that's when we need the safety of a phone.
I also read that somebody was fined for staying more than two minutes at a pickup point.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/iphone/11737063/Man-arrested-after-charging-iPhone-on-London-Overground.html
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-2242801/The-trick-beat-private-parking-tickets-I-dodged-service-station-fine.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2981794/10-minute-let-avoid-parking-ticket-month-new-law-let-overstay-meter-without-fine.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3170758/Pregnant-mum-hit-70-parking-fine-stopping-just-SIX-minutes-partner-changed-baby-s-nappy.html
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker.
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