Abstract Nowadays, mobile phones are becoming more and more popular, while wristwatches are losing popularity. The cell phone industry constantly comes up with new applications that come with the phone while their prices do not increase. Wristwatches, on the other hand, are not as technologically advanced and are of no use to many people. To measure the addiction and popularity that people have towards mobile phones, the researcher conducted an experiment that tested the addiction that people have towards mobile phones. It was hypothesized that if random subjects were asked the time, more people would use their cell phones rather than their wristwatches. 24 people were asked the time and 50% used their cell phones. This proves that the hypothesis is correct. More and more people depend on the mobile phone rather than the wristwatch. This alludes to the great dependence people have on the technological advancements of mobile phones. Now in 2010, it is difficult to understand what it meant to make a phone call in 1870, when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. In Bell's day, making a call wasn't as easy as pressing ten digits to dial a number and pressing Call. It was quite a difficult process and required two hands for the job, one to hold the transmitter and one to hold the receiver. Furthermore, the telephone connection was usually very weak. It was a difficult task to be heard on the other end of the receiver. People had to shout into the transmitter hoping the other person would hear them. Now, with updated cell phones, a person can make a call and use other applications, such as sending a text message, while still connected to the other person... middle of paper... they weren't taken into account as a factor. A nice extension of the experiment is to compare the age factor with cell phone addiction. If this type of experiment were repeated, the researcher would have to test the addiction to cell phones on two age groups; a group of teenagers and a group of middle-aged people. Works Cited Crompton, S. W. (2009). Alaxander Graham Bell and the telephone: the invention that changed communication. New York: Infobase Publishing.Earnest, L. (2006, April 16). http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/16/business/fi-watch16. Retrieved from www.LAT.com.Fraser/Corbis, P. (2010). The next big things. Reader's Digest, 84-97.Ho, D. (2008, November). http://hamptonroads.com/2008/11/cell-phone-killing-wristwatch. Retrieved from www.Hamptonroads.com.http;//library.thinkquest.org/04oct/02001/home.htm. (2001, October 4). Retrieved from Thinkquest.com.