Famelack on the Road: TV and Radio While You Travel

A TV That Fits in a Pocket

Pack Famelack channels app for Android and the hotel television problem disappears. The channels of the place you are visiting are already there, organised under its name in the country list, along with the channels of the home you left. No accounts, no setup at the other end: open the app in a new city and its television is simply available.

The local angle is the pleasure of it. Morning news in the place's own language, its weather, its talk shows: a trip feels different when the television in the room is actually local, even when the room is a train seat.

Hotel Wi-Fi and Weak Signals

Travel connections are the weakest you will ever use: shared hotel Wi-Fi at dinner hour, station platforms, the last bar of signal on a rural road. Live video asks a lot of them, so spend your data like a traveller. Our data usage guide shows what an hour of each mode costs; the short version is to save video for good connections and let the lighter modes carry the journey.

An older phone makes a fine travel television, by the way. The habits in our old Android phone guide turn a spare handset into the trip's screen and keep your main phone free.

Radio for Roads and Rails

For the moving parts of a trip, radio is the right medium: stations from the region you are crossing, playing in the background, sipping data and battery. The radio mode guide covers the mechanics; on the road the pattern is to favourite the big stations of each region before you leave, then let the landscape choose among them.

Trains especially belong to radio. Tunnels and cuttings murder video streams and barely touch a station, and arrival feels shorter with a voice along.

Channels From Home, Wherever You Are

The other direction matters just as much. Your home country's channels travel with you: its news, its sport, its evening shows, all in the same country list you used on the sofa. Homesickness has a channel number now, and so does keeping up with a series or a team's away match.

Spin the globe to where you are for the local picture, and to where you are from for the familiar one. Between the two, a phone is the only television a traveller needs.