Mobile phones

Now there are various means of communications but mobile phones are considered the easiest, fastest and one of the cheapest means of communicating. There are many mobile phone gadgets brands available in the market. Some of them are the Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola and many others.

There are as well three major mobile network providers in Russia: MTS, BeeLine, and Megafon. The prices, coverage and the service offered by these operators are quite similar.

The pricing system in Russia for cellular services is the following: you should pay for all outcoming calls, outcoming text messages, and additional services, such as voice mail, number identification, call diverting, etc. All incoming calls and messages are free of charge. The price of the phone call depends on where you are calling from and where you are calling to. So if you are traveling with your own cellphone and SIM-card, you will be able to use it, if your provider has «roaming» agreement with one of the local mobile operators.

We are now, what we call, in the age of communications. We choose the mobile phone gadgets for communicating and also for other purposes like listening to music, playing games, Internet access, sending texts, etc. So mobile phones are used for several reasons. Other features include the camera, video, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, infrared port, etc. In a single gadget we use all these features which we need all the day. We don’t need a separate music player or a gaming device. Mobile phones have it all.

There are many new mobile phones which also have Internet facility for sending e-mails or downloading any music files and playing online games. Many phones are now coming with this additional service, namely GPS, which has maps of about 150 countries which can be explored by you. These days’ mobile phones have many accessories like the Bluetooth, earphones, headphones, mobile covers and so on.

Today there is a wide choice of the mobile phone gadgets and if you want to buy one, it is better to go to a specialized shop, where you can buy phone with all accessories and get a guarantee.

Задание 2. Ответьте на вопросы по содержанию текста.

1. What brand of a mobile phone do you have?

2. What kind of cellular operator do you use?

3. Whom do you usually call?

4. How long do you usually speak over the telephone?

5. For what purposes do you use your mobile phone?

6. How much do you usually pay for your phone monthly?

Задание 3. Подберите синонимы к выделенным словам. Переведите предложения:

1. I’ll ring you up tomorrow, just at about the same time.

2. A frequent signal showed that the number was engaged.

3. I was mistaken when I had phoned my friend.

4. Wait a minute, don’t hang up.

5. Has anybody phoned today and asked you to tell me anything?

6. When I was speaking over the phone I was suddenly disengaged.