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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
I always love reading older books where the entire plot could be solved if cell phones had existed back then.
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No, it wouldn't really. I read some YA adventure books set in early Twentieth Century. Before broadcast radio. In two of them messages by Morse feature. One was a battery powered transmitter in Alaskan wilderness in a tent.
The author would have simply changed the story slightly. The Famous Five, Hardy Boys and others would simply have had mobiles snatched by criminals, or no coverage in the secret passage / cave / cellar or battery is flat.
Or the hero drives off after filling up leaving phone and laptop on roof of the car! Not read it in a story, but know of it in real life. Phone was OK (an old Nokia). Or you can only make emergency calls and can't receive any due to no call credit.
In real life someone managed to alert about a kidnapper just by dialling. Someone was suspicious and traced the phone.
In several stories since 2014 they ALL have cell phones and can't use them because the bad guy(s) monitoring.