If you find yourself casing every room you enter for the nearest power outlet so you can charge your phone, you’re now in luck. Better batteries and innovations in cords make staying charged easier than ever, and they fit in your pocket or on your key chain.
On a recent flight, the young man sitting next to me was despondent. His Apple Inc. MacBook Pro laptop was almost out of power—and his iPhone had just died. “Do you have a spare charger?” he plaintively asked. But I was no help: I’m an Android guy and my connector—a micro USB—is worthless to an Apple guy. I shook my head, and he was left pondering what to do with the 30 minutes remaining until we landed.
