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History of mobile phones, an Uncommon card
The history of mobile phones covers mobile Connection devices that connect wirelessly to the public switched telephone network.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
History of mobile phones quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the History of mobile phones card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The first such devices were barely ______ compared to today's compact hand-held devices, and their use was clumsy.
Answer
portable. The first such devices were barely portable compared to today's compact hand-held devices, and their use was clumsy. From the History of mobile phones article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bulletproof vest. Bulletproof vest 84 · History of mobile phones 81 · Naser al-Din Shah Qajar 78 · Bill Hagerty 75 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- While the transmission of speech by signal has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, mobile, and also capable of connecting to the standard telephone network are much more recent.
- The first such devices were barely portable compared to today's compact hand-held devices, and their use was clumsy.
- Drastic changes have taken place in both the networking of wireless communication and the prevalence of its use, with smartphones becoming common globally and a growing proportion of Internet access now done via
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The History of mobile phones article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get History of mobile phones
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, History of mobile phones (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : McKay Savage from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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