There are many perks to living in the US: Google services availability, frequent Amazon deals, lower tech prices (on average), and the fact that many tech companies are based there, meaning you never have to worry about plugs and voltages when buying your gadgets. Cross the Atlantic and the story gets a bit more complicated. Each time we, the poor souls living in Europe and countries that follow the European electricity standards, want to buy something new that isn’t officially available for us, we have to make sure it works on 220-240V and that as a bonus, it has an EU plug so we don’t have to use a small adapter that will add weight and could cause the whole thing to fall off the wall at any time.

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Xtorm review: Good but expensive USB-C hubs, chargers, and cables for the European market was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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