Answers for Full Blast Plus 4 –Let’s Chat (pg.

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From Bricks to Smartphone – The Evolution of the Mobile Phone

1. Do you think the mobile phone is a useful invention? Why?

1. carry around 4. applications
2. useful 5. practical
3. emergency 6. multi-functional

2. How much have mobile phones changed in the last five years?
1. over the years 4. nowadays
2. gradually 5. available
3. advanced

COMPREHENSION
1. In 1983
2. It was about a new mobile phone.
3. It was called DynaTAC 8000x
4. You could talk up to 60 minutes. It needed only 10 hours to charge and you could store
up to 30 phone numbers on it.
5. $3995
6. In 1973
7. About 1 kilo / About a kilo
8. With a heavy shoulder pack which had batteries in it.
9. They had weak signals.
10. Reception over wider areas.
11. Over 2 trillion.
12. Camera phones
13. In the early 2000s
14. They act as internet, browsers, media players and game consoles.
15. Video calling and mobile TV
16. New ideas and exciting concept mobiles.