What would we do without mobile phones? Be it an emergency, be it leisure, and be it religious, there are cell phones everywhere.
The world's largest individual mobile operator by subscribers is China Mobile with more than 500 million mobile phone subscribers. Over 50 mobile operators have over 10 million subscribers each. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently tagged cell phone use as a carcinogenic hazard.
Below are a few snapshots of people using phones for very different purposes
A man talks on his cell phone after taking part in the 10th Annual No Pants Subway Ride in New York City January 9, 2011. The event, organised by Improv Everywhere, involves participants who strip down to their underwear as they go about their normal routineREUTERS/Jessica RinaldiA woman reacts while using a mobile phone as she looks at her house destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami in Kessenuma town, in Miyagi prefecture March 28, 2011. Japan appeared resigned on Monday to a long fight to contain the world's most dangerous atomic crisis in 25 years after high radiation levels complicated work at its crippled nuclear plantREUTERS/Carlos BarriaThe plastinated body of a man is pictured during an exhibition preview at Naturhistorisches Museum (Natural History Museum) in Vienna, November 16, 2010. The human body is on display for comparision at "Koerperwelten der Tiere" (Body Worlds of Animals), an exhibition of polymer preserved animals of German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, which opened on November 17 and ran until March 17, 2011REUTERS/Heinz-Peter BaderA Coptic Orthodox priest uses his iPhone before conducting a prayer for the relatives of the victims who died after Saturday's bomb attack, in a house in Alexandria January 3, 2011. The bomb killed 21 people outside a Coptic Orthodox Christian church early on New Year's Day and a security source said seven people have been held for questioningREUTERS/Asmaa WaguihA bride takes a nap as newlyweds attend a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Sun Moon University in Asan, south of Seoul October 10, 2010. The Unification Church founded by evangelist reverend Moon Sun-myung in Seoul in 1954, performed its first mass wedding in 1961 with 33 couples. Seven thousand and two hundred couples attended the mass wedding on SundayREUTERS/Lee Jae-WonA U.S. soldier with a prosthetic limb uses his mobile phone to film a ceremony for U.S. soldiers who sustained combat injuries in Iraq at Al Faw Palace in U.S. Camp Victory in Baghdad May 9, 2010REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenA survivor of a bomb explosion talks on the phone near the exit of Park Kultury metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010. Two female suicide bombers killed at least 38 people on two Moscow metro trains in the rush hour on Monday, officials said. The blasts took place at Lubyanka and Park Kultury metro stationsREUTERS/Ria Novosti/Vladimir F
