Travel things

Apple Watch Series 5, £27 per month (£19 upfront) vodafone.co.uk

Beam yourself up for Star Trek on your wrist – this top touch tech feels like you’ve arrived in the 23rd century.

Smartwatch? It feels more like a Spockwatch with the potential for holding hundreds of apps or shortcuts to features inside the recycled aluminium or titanium body, with its interchangeable straps and seemingly endless choice of faces.

From health to wealth and workouts via the weather, excess decibel alerts, reminders to drink water, email, and ringing emergency contacts if you fall, it’s all here.

Siri enabling lets you ask it questions, just like Scotty and his computer.

While not quite transported from planet Vulcan (Apple HQ in California, obviously), it feels like the product of a highly advanced alien civilisation, which is perhaps why it needs a little time and effort to set up and link to an iPhone.

New for this series is the always-on retina display and the built-in compass (handy for setting the warp drive for The Neutral Zone, or just a walk in the Peak District).

Power and beauty comes at a price though: the battery needs a charge every day just like your iPhone, which brings us to...

iPhone SE, £39 per month (£19 upfront) vodafone.co.uk

Affordable will never mean cheap with Apple but its entry level 4.7in retina HD display smartphone packs a mighty punch into the sleek glass and aluminium splash, water and dust-resistant body.

That comes from the A13 Bionic chip that powers it – the same “brain” that’s in the mighty iPhone 11 Pro – and it offers a super-slick experience for apps and games. Even the normally underwhelming Safari browser seems better.

The camera has all you need and more for holiday photos, you can run two numbers, for instance private and work, on it and stream your sounds to two people’s headsets on the sunloungers. And the battery charges from flat to 50% in 30 minutes.