How would you describe a cell phone to someone 50 years ago?

Answer 1

A portable phone with no wires

Answer 2

The short and obvious version is a phone w/o any cords. If they were smarter than that, I'd say it's like their radios -- the signal just comes through the air from an antenna somewhere far away (or nearby, ideally). As such, reception can be good or bad. The screen you could compare to your TV, except you'd have to say there's no cathode tube; technology has changed. The fun part will be explaining the batteries, which pretty much didn't exist 50 years ago, let alone in rechargeable form.

Answer 3

hmmm, you know when you used cans and a string to talk into when you were kids? One would have one can, the other another? Well, a cellhpone is like those cans. But instead of a can...it's a small rectangle and you don't need the string anymore. They have electric poles for that now (50 years ago is the 1950's where they DID have electric poles). So you just talk into this small rectangle and the person on the other side can hear you :)

Answer 4

A phone without a cord. Uses radio signals like CB radio

Answer 5

A Dick Tracy watch that looks like a phone.

Answer 6

describing a mobile to someone from 1956 - it's a portable, wireless phone that you can use anywhere.

Answer 7

As a small portable telephone. We weren't all morons back then ya know. Even Dick Tracy had a wrist radio.

Answer 8

Its a phone w/o wires, and you can take pictures w/some phones. And if I had a camera on the phone, I would show them! :)

Answer 9

You dont have too

50 year olds created the Mobile phone industry

Answer 10

A wireless communicator..