A screen displays a demonstration of facial recognition software at the Ericsson AB booth at the Mobile World Congress.

Visitors attend the Mobile World Congress.

A screen displays a demonstration of facial recognition software at the Ericsson AB booth at the Mobile World Congress.

Walkanga playing with a mobile phone while lying beneath a mosquito net. The houses are often raised from the ground, with the lower part serving as kitchen and living room. The habitat is made with...

An attendee uses a mobile phone while standing in front of the Huawei Technologies Co. booth at the Mobile World Congress.

A screen displays a demonstration of facial recognition software at the Ericsson AB booth at the Mobile World Congress.

Attendants, holding numbered signs, at the Mobile World Congress.

A woman makes a call from a public telephone booth outside a newly opened branch of luxury perfumier Lancome. Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika policies allowed western brands such as Lanco...

The Mayor of Vasylkiv, Natalia Balasinovich, speaking on a mobile phone during a busy day when she met with local military leaders and members of her city council.

The Mayor of Vasylkiv, Natalia Balasinovich, speaking on a mobile phone during a busy day when she met with local military leaders and members of her city council.

A young woman makes a call on a mobile phone as she arrives in the relative safety of Kyiv, having managed to escape the besieged city of Chernihiv.

People who have fled their homes in various parts of Ukraine charging their mobile phones while they wait in a reception area at Kyiv central station before travelling onward.

An elderly man sits on a bus making a call on his mobile phone. He was one of a steady stream of civilians who arrived in minivans and ambulances, some injured, at an aid station in north west Kyiv, h...

An employee makes notes while making a call from a telephone capsule at the Aegon headquarters building.

An employee sits in a privacy capsule making a telephone call at the headquarters of KPMG at Brussels International Airport.

A mobile phone network transmission antenna disguised as a palm tree in Egypt's New Administrative Capital. Following persistent problems of overpopulation, pollution and traffic congestion, the const...

Local volunteer, Ibado (purple) checks her mobile phone while on her daily rounds visiting IDPs displaced by drought in a camp near Oog.

Local volunteer, Ibado (purple) checks her mobile phone while on her daily rounds visiting IDPs displaced by drought in a camp near Oog.

Elderly residents of Irpin who have been trapped there for many weeks, arrive at a safe checkpoint by ambulance in the suburbs of North West Kyiv.

A girl lies next to her sleeping mother and looks at her phone in a temporary reception centre for Ukrainian refugees.

A young woman texting on her mobile phone in a public tram seen in a reflection of a window.

Veterans from the Transnistria war (1991-1992) show pictures from the conflict on a mobile phone after they visited a photographic exhibition which commemorates the conflict.

A woman, from Odessa, makes a call on a mobile phone at a temporary reception site set up at the Moldexpo centre where people fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine are registered and receive further...

Ukrainian refugees look at their phones at Przemsl Glowny train station, 15 kms from the Polish Ukrainian border. Ten days after the start of the Russian war with Ukraine, thousands of refugees pass t...

A young woman checks her mobile phone as she waits with her pet dog in the Central Ticket Hall at Lviv Grand Central Station. There are too many people queuing to get on to the platforms so people hav...

A young woman checks her mobile phone as she waits with her pet dog in the Central Ticket Hall at Lviv Grand Central Station. There are too many people queuing to get on to the platforms so people hav...

A young woman checks her mobile phone as she waits with her pet dog in the Central Ticket Hall at Lviv Grand Central Station. There are too many people queuing to get on to the platforms so people hav...

A Ukrainian woman sits, wrapped in a blanket, talking on her mobile phone soon after crossing the border fleeing the Russian invasion. She is waiting for transport to the main transit hub 15kms away i...

A military intelligence soldier checks his mobile phone while resting in a guard post that is about 500 metres away from the positions of the pro-Russian separatists.

A commuter talks on a mobile phone while sitting in the back of a car travelling on the Lekki-Epe expressway, which is notorious for its traffic jams.

Donatien Musepena testing an experimental phone app for measuring tree circumferences at the Yangambi research station. It is hoped that the app will eventually supersede manual measurement, which is...

Donatien Musepena testing an experimental phone app for measuring tree circumferences at the Yangambi research station. It is hoped that the app will eventually supersede manual measurement, which is...

Testing of an experimental phone app for measuring tree circumferences at the Yangambi research station. It is hoped that the app will eventually supersede manual measurement, which is laborious and t...

Forest ranger records a wild elephant's path through the human plantation areas.

Kassym Jomart Tokayev at the Palais des Nations, outside the Council Chamber, when he was Director General of the United Nations in Geneva (from 2011 to 2013).

Kassym Jomart Tokayev at the Palais des Nations, outside the Council Chamber, when he was Director General of the United Nations in Geneva (from 2011 to 2013).

Kassym Jomart Tokayev at the Palais des Nations, outside the Council Chamber, when he was Director General of the United Nations in Geneva (from 2011 to 2013).

Young people laugh at something on their phones at Isivavana youth cultural center in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town.

A boy on a bicycle speaks on a mobile phone whilst a cobbler wearing a pink hat repairs shoes beneath a mural about road safety and COVID-19.

Manoki youths paint their bodies for a cultural event in an Irantxe Manoki indigenous village in Mato Grosso.

Manoki youths paint their bodies for a cultural event in an Irantxe Manoki indigenous village in Mato Grosso.

Irantxe Manoki youths use their mobile phones in an indigenous village in the Irantxe indigenous lands.

Rebecca, a food delivery rider, waits for orders outside a restaurant.

Lovemore updates his identity photograph on his app before leaving for work. He works as a food delivery rider in Johannesburg.

A woman with a mobile phone leans on a wall overlooking highrise buildings along Nurzhol Boulevard.

Diplomats looking at their phones, at the United Nations Palais des Nations in Geneva.

A young man with Covid 19 looks at his phone while receiving oxygen at a temporary facility opposite the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital in Delhi.

Demonstration against the visit of controversial French politician, Eric Zemmour to Geneva. Antifa banner adapting one of his statements reads 'the only strangers in our neighbourhoods are police and...

Sunset from the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise on the Saya de Malha Bank.

A woman takes a picture on a mobile phone, which is decorated with a picture of Ebrahim Raisi, during an election rally in Palestine Square for Raisi who was elected president of Iran in the vote held...

Christine Hunter sits on the deck outside her room with family member Jai Kirby, quarantining from other family members in the temporary Warrawong caravan park quarantine facility.

Christine Hunter sits on the deck outside her room, quarantining from other family members in the temporary Warrawong caravan park quarantine facility.

Members of the international press obsevering the United Nations Conference on Afghanistan, chaired by Melissa Fleming on screen, at the UN in Geneva.

Young women, sitting on the beach, look at a message on a mobile phone.

Different generations of women look at a message on a mobile phone.

A journalist uses a selfie-stick to film a report on a mobile phone from the media centre set up at the Joe Biden/Vladimir Putin summit meeting which was taking place at nearby Villa La Grange.

A journalist at the media centre takes a mobile phone picture of a television monitor broadcasting images of the Russian delegation arriving at a nearby airport for the Joe Biden/Vladimir Putin summit...

A journalist uses a selfie-stick to film a report on a mobile phone from a child's playground near the media centre set up at the Joe Biden/Vladimir Putin summit meeting which was taking place at near...

A journalist takes a mobile phone picture of a television monitor broadcasting images of a woman vacuuming the red carpet at nearby Villa La Grange where the Joe Biden/Vladimir Putin summit meeting is...

A journalist takes a mobile phone picture from just outside the media centre at the Joe Biden/Vladimir Putin summit meeting taking place at nearby Villa La Grange.

Geneva Summit Preparations inside the lakeside media centre, with bathers outside on the shore of Lake Geneva. On 16 June 2021 US president Joe Biden and Russian president Vladimir Putin met in Genev...

A man using a track and trace QR Code App on his mobile smart phone before entering a convenience store in central Taipei.

Mobile phones for sale in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

Jonathan Suarez, 33, eats Menudo, a traditional Mexican soup made with cow's tripe, at a Mexican restaurant called, Taqueria Los Compadres, after dropping his son off with his mother. Jonathan is a D...

Jonathan Suarez, 33, eats Menudo, a traditional Mexican soup made with cow's tripe, at a Mexican restaurant called, Taqueria Los Compadres, after dropping his son off with his mother. Jonathan is a D...

Jonathan Suarez, 33, spends time with his nine-month-old son, Jeremiah, on his patio in Inglewood. Since he has his own business, he can take three days off, which he dedicates to spending time with J...

Jonathan Suarez, 33, works at his desk in his store, ScreenCure, a mobile phone repair shop where he employs five people. Jonathan is a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient who came...

Jonathan Suarez, 33, works at his desk in his store, ScreenCure, a mobile phone repair shop where he employs five people. Jonathan is a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient who came...

Jonathan Suarez, 33, spends time with his nine-month-old son, Jeremiah, on his patio in Inglewood. Since he has his own business, he can take three days off, which he dedicates to spending time with J...

Excited members of the congregation use their mobile phones to trake pictures of Pope Francis as he holds mass in the Church of Immaculate Conception in the mainly Christian town of Qaraqosh.

A woman adjusts her face mask while looking at her mobile phone at Kamalapur Railway Station (officially known as Dhaka railway station).

A Xikrin indigenous woman uses the only public telephone in the village Rapko in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land, which had part of their area invaded and cleared by land grabbers. President Bol...

Kenny Maziya makes a call with his mobile phone as cattle graze beside him.

A woman makes a call on a mobile phone beside a phone service provider's booth.

A man talking on his mobile phone in the Kagiso informal settlement.

A homeless man makes a mobile phone call as he sits in a hallway at a winter emergency shelter, run by the Ville de Geneve, in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclear bunker).

A nurse on duty in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the Homerton Hospital holds a telephone next to the ear of an intubated COVID-19 patient so that her daughter can talk to her. There are currently 2...

Protestors check their mobile phones as they rest beneath a fly-over after they spent the morning demonstrating in support of democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) an...

Protestors, including families with children, check their mobile phones as they rest beneath a fly-over after they spent the morning demonstrating in support of democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi and the Nat...

A protestor puts up signs promoting the Civil Disobedience Movements on the exterior of Custom House on Strand Road, seemingly ignored by police officers who are busy looking at their mobile phones ri...

Protestors post stickers promoting the Civil Disobedience Movements at Custom House on Strand Road, seemingly ignored by police guards busy looking at their mobile phones.

Protestors stand in front of a Huawei mobile phone shop holding placards include ones accusing Russia and China of complicity in the military coup.

Passengers check their mobile phones while waiting on the platform at Rotterdam Central Station.

Illuminated advertisements above a parade of shops selling mostly Chinese brands of mobile phones and accessories.

People look at their mobile phones and chat while sitting at a street stall selling eggs.

A Muslim woman checks Facebook on her mobile phone.

Street vendors, selling live crabs from a roadside stall in the city centre, look at the news on their mobile phones a day after the military staged a coup.

People flash their mobile phone lights while singing anti-military anthems, after calls for protest went out on social media in opposition to the 1 February 2021 military coup.

Mobile phones belonging to a group of Algerian transit migrants who are camped in a decrepit abandoned factory building, are being charged from an illegal link to a high voltage cable. The migrants ar...

Two men looking at their mobile phones while standing next to a mural.