A conscript for the Russian army talks on a mobile phone at a recruiting station in Stavropol, Russia, on October 20. Eduard Kornienko/Reuters
A police officer talks on a mobile phone during a police operation against alleged drug traffickers at the Vila Cruzeiro slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 24. Silvia Izquierdo/AP
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi talks on a mobile phone at the Senate in Rome on Dec. 14. Tony Gentile/Reuters
A man speaks on a mobile phone among sacks filled with wheat and rice inside the market yard of the Agriculture Product Marketing Committee (APMC) on the outskirts of the Ahmedabad, India, on Nov. 25. Amit Dave/Reuters
Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood talk on their mobile phones as they arrive to cast their ballots in the parliamentary election in a school in old Cairo, Egypt, on Nov. 28. Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
A woman cries as she makes a call with her mobile phone after the Pacaya volcano erupted in the town of Calderas, Guatemala, on May 28. Moises Castillo/AP
iPhone fan Mitsuru Endo (r.) and others try out Apple's latest iPhone 4 models at a Softbank store in Tokyo, Japan. Shizuo Kambayashi/AP
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez talks on the phone with Colombian baseball star of the San Francisco Giants Edgar Renteria on Nov. 2 after Mr. Renteria hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning against the Texas Rangers. Reuters/Handout-Miraflores Place
A boy talks on a cell phone at the Rafiq Nagar slum in Mumbai, India, on Oct. 14. Rafiq Maqbool/AP
President Obama talks on the phone en route to George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, to deliver remarks on health insurance reform on March 19. Pete Souza/The White House/Reuters
Opposition leader Alassane Ouattara talks on a cell phone after making a declaration to the press at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Dec. 8. Rebecca Blackwell/AP
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks on the phone to a Reuters reporter during an interview from her home in Yangon on Nov. 19. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
A couple in colonial dress (he uses a cell phone) come out to support the Tea Party with signs in Boston, Mass., on April 14. Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor
Andrew Williamson gets a high view as he tries to find his wife without a cell phone signal due to an apparent network overload at the 'Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear' in Washington on Oct. 30. Suchat Pederson/The News-Journal/AP
Two young women check out a photo of themselves taken with the Nelson Mandela statue on their cell phone at Nelson Mandela Square in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 20. Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor
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