What electronics do you use in your seat?
 

In coach space is at a huge premium (and perhaps to a lesser extent in business) so what devices do you take with you to your seat and how do you manage them?

I usually take my Kindle, Bose headphones, Surface Pro 4, my cellphone and a USB charger if the seat has power.

I have not taken my Surface Pro 4 out of it's case though because at 12.3" it is just too big and unwieldy. The cellphone I feel is too small to watch anything if the IFE sucks (which it does 50-60% of the time) or if there isn't any IFE on shorter flights. Now I am thinking of getting a 8" tablet which would be easier to take out and stow away when the meals come out!

Also, was using the seatback pocket to store my stuff but I felt that is bad, last time I had a travel case and got a hook to hang it from the side of the seat which worked out well.

I usually have my little messenger bag at my feet, perfect size for phone, 7" tablet, camera, usb charger and headphones.
I can take what I want out at any given time and very easy to store things again.
Also helps that I can put my passport and other travel docs in it too along with essential medications, so that in the event something happens I'm not going to be left without.

iPad and headphones are my regular kit these days.

Laptop if I have something I need to work on. It really annoys me when the front seat recline and squish my monitor though. With some short legroom, reclining seat means I have to type on my stomach arching my elbow back like a T-rex with tiny arms.

Mainly fly international routes, so longer periods in the seats and often more room, even in coach.

* Nexus phone
* Cheap active noise canceling earbugs
* 13inch Chromebook (10+ hrs on a charge)
* Canon SX700 "travel zoom" + extra battery
* 12K USB battery

Since around 2010-ish most planes I've flown have had USB charging ports in the seatback.

Even on 14+ hr flights, the chromebook (running Linux) has been fine working on a presentation, writing some code or dealing with emails. For multi-day travel, I'll bring the power cord. A tablet just isn't enough operating system for my needs. Tried on one trip and it didn't work out.

For 3 hrs or less, I'd never pull out the chromebook.
I've been eyeing an 8inch tablet. 7 is too small and my 5+ yr old 10inch is too large and has relatively short battery life.

Same, except I use my phone (old iPad is to my kids now) and noise cancelling headphones with wireless adapter. Feel the same way about working on my laptop, the times I need to. Bulkhead and exit rows with non-reclining seats in front are good for this, though.

A phone in handbag. I don't use it in my seat. I'm boring.

IPad and Bose Headphones

iPad air2 and noise cancelling ear buds. And my favourite on LH is a small tens machine to give the back muscles a massage

BlackBerry PRIV, Kindle fire HD, Bose QC30, Anker USB pack, Anker USB 4port charger all in a pouch that I pull out of my carry on and toss in the setback pocket.
The pouch is in a ziploc.

For Int'l flight maybe the Lenovo MiiX.

Reading kindle and listening to music on my iPhone. I don't watch movie on the plane.

My life/work are complicated at the moment, so I generally have with me at my seat good noise canceling headphones, an iPhone, a Mac laptop, a Windows laptop (different machines for different jobs/clients), two Ipads (ditto), a kindle and a usb hard drive. Most flights the only things I actually take out of my briefcase are the iPhone, headphones and the kindle, and occasionally one of the two iPads. But I've found if I don't have these at hand, inevitably the one I need is the one I did not bring with me. I used to carry an iPod as well (and occasionally still do).

IPad Mini, bose headphones, laptop if I have work to do, or happen to be in a row with extra room (bulkhead, exit).
Also carry some bluetooth noise cancelling headphones for shorter hops where I don't want to carry the bulk of the Bose set.

I usually use time on planes to catch up on reading. My kindle just squeezes inside my Bose QC35 case. So if it is a shorter flight normally its just my headphone case with the kindle inside. The one thing I liked better about the QC15 case is it was thinner although larger, and it had an elastic pocket on the back, so I would put my kindle there along with my battery pack. If it is a longer flight then I will also take out my iPad. Although I rarely watch what I have on it, or watch anything on the IFE. I have all kinds of season subscriptions for TV shows that I tell myself I'll watch on the plane, but rarely actually do. I will say my reading picked up significantly when I got one of the Kindles with a backlight. Night flights I always felt the individual reading light wasn't that great, but now with the backlight I don't have to worry about what kind of flight it is I can read on it.

Always Notebook & auxiliary battery, Android pad, noise cancelling headphones, 2-3 phones.

Sometimes: GPS logger, power adapter, external drives, camera, flashlights, reading lights, VR goggles.

Still looking for: good thermoelectric cooler, compact air filter, pen sized printer and scanner. high pitch focused noise generator against parents who let their kids watch media players without headphones.

17.3" HP Elitebook with charger

LG G5 with charger

Earbuds

If the plane has 110v outlets, I prefer to use the HP, obviously. However, the 5.5" screen on the G5 is plenty bright and 2k resolution, more than sufficient for watching movies. I can load 4 or 5 movies in decent quality on a 128 gig microSD and pop it in the phone. I'm actually leaning towards leaving the laptop home from here on out, I find myself using it less and less, and it's a heavy SOB (8 lbs plus the reinforced bag, call it 10 with charger).