Under a thousand: Add ports to your device for not too much

Smartphones, tablets and notebooks might be getting more powerful than ever before, but one department where they seem to be in a state of recession is in terms of connectivity ports. Throw your mind back to barely five years ago, and it was normal for a notebook to come with a card reader, network and HDMI slots. Phones and tablets too had expandable storage slots and some even had support for HDMI connections.

Docking stations: a multi-device user’s port of call!

Fast forward to the present era and you get tablets and phones with single USB Type-C ports and no expandable memory options and notebooks that treat connectivity ports like water in the Sahara – they hand them out in limited quantities with a lot of care.